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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780760333532Author Donald M. KehnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Zenith PressPublisher Motorbooks International

The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Natives today. A complicated system of criteria and procedures, the FAP is utilized by federal officials to determine whether a Native community qualifies...

A fast-paced tour through several centuries of Canadian historyBook InformationISBN 9780773530904Author R. T. NaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 778g

The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary,...

On New Year's Eve, 1942, four British destroyers fought off a massive German attack in the Arctic by the pocket battleship "Lustzow", the heavy cruiser "Hipper" and six destroyers. Not one merchant ship was lost, and Hitler's fury at...

The real story of the Occupation uncovers a reality more complex, more human and ultimately more moving than the myths which have grown after the event. Defeat in 1940 left the French so demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed...

Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War...

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C. Bolton gives a distinct voice to one of the most elusive groups in the society of the Old South. Bolton's detailed examination reveals much about the lives of these landless white tenants and laborers...

In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating...

Chin up, Britain! Now is the time to return to basic commonsense and embrace a new austerity. Can't afford a holiday? Slather on some sun tan lotion that smells of coconuts, at least you'll smell like you're on holiday. Don't know what to do with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822304296Author Stanley R. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University Press

It is a largely forgotten fact that Britain was the first industrialized country in the world, but Guy Martin - the cult motorcycle racer and mechanic - is about to remind us how the industrial revolution helped make Britain great. Guy shows how the...

The wartime career of Norbert Hannig makes for fascinating and highly informative reading on an aspect of the 1939-45 war not often covered in the English language; primarily that of the campaign against the Soviet Union. Many and varied were his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773532281Author G. Bruce DoernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752403878Author Tim WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752403120Author Jon LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752403229Author Peter StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Most Canadian universities were created in response to society's perceived need for men and women trained in the professions, or at least prepared to take up gainful employment that contributes to the national economy. In contrast, Bishop's was inspired...

David Ross McCord's interest in collecting archival material - historical manuscripts, his personal family papers, and correspondence concerning his search for artifacts - established the mandate for the subsequent acquisition of material into this...

An addition to the BRITAIN IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS series which features a selection of black-and-white photographs that record all aspects of daily life in late 19th and early 20th century Blackburn, including celebrations, disasters, work, lesiure, people...

Released to coincide with a major BBC TV documentary series on the crusades presented by the author. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing...

Jack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his...

In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankind's darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard...

This book draws on the evidence the ancient Egyptians left behind. It examines how they lived, studied, worked, played and worshipped. There are also stories of real people.Book InformationISBN 9780750259064Author Jane BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count...

At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a year of...

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russian Revolution really inevitable? This collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898800125Author Alfred PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rigel PublicationsPublisher Rigel PublicationsWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898800095Author Robert JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Rigel PublicationsPublisher Rigel PublicationsWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898799849Author Simon FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Artus BooksPublisher Orion Publishing CoWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874538219Author Malcolm ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Old Bakehouse PublicationsPublisher Old Bakehouse Publications

Written by a military historian, this book aims to draw together the threads of the two wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 against Germany's submarines (Untersee Boote) noting their affinities and their contrasts. It tries to set each U-boat campaign against...

Departing radically from traditional histories, A WAR IN WORDS tells the story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants, eyewitnesses or victims. Powerful individual...

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives...

Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful neighbours and male claimants. Even the British East India Company initially opposed female rule in...

The author traces the history of the town from the first grant of land by Wulfruna to the re-development of the 1990s; the first comprehensive account of this ancient town.Book InformationISBN 9781860770807Author Chris UptonFormat HardbackPage Count...

-- Quizzes and questions cleverly combined with a wealth of fascinating background information-- Basic point scoring system evaluates general knowledge-- Each title includes a mega quizBook InformationISBN 9780746006412Author Marit ClaridgeFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860198540Author Philip J. HaythornthwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Indigenous peoples have long suffered from exoticization. Outsiders elevate their beauty, remoteness and difference and do not see beyond this to the real problems they face. The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples looks beyond the exotic images,...

Understanding the past - where we have come from and what has moulded us - is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland's largest city. For 250 years Belfast, though quite unlike anywhere else in Ireland, was similar to many of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859837054Author Richard StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing