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The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future-particularly that of America-in the past century, much can be learned about the...

Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252060526Author James GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

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With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Thomas Summerhill's Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance...

The Gulf Coast of Texas has drawn people ever since nomadic Indian tribes sought sustenance in the coastal lagoons and marshes. Spanish and French explorers shipwrecked on these shores, while settlers in the nineteenth century turned Galveston and...

Through the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century (1840-1920), Annette Atkins reveals the inner workings of ten nineteenth-century families, illuminating their everyday lives and central relationships...

Today's troubled juvenile court system has its roots in Progressive-era Chicago, a city one observer described as "first in violence" and "deepest in dirt." Examining the vision and methods of the original proponents of the Cook...

During the Second World War the fabric of family life radically changed. Men left to join the front line, some never to return. Women entered the workforce on a scale not seen before, some to join the services, others to enter the factories. Mothers were...

In this present age of sophisticated technology, governments and their agencies have the capabilities to track citizens not only on the street (CCTV surveillance equipment is everywhere) but also in the 'privacy' of our homes (we leave a footprint...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide ...'The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information' - "Amazon Reader Review". This new fully-updated "Eyewitness Travel Guide" reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948975622Author Richard AskewFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Millstream BooksPublisher Millstream BooksWeight(grams) 169g

The 1960s are well documented but not well understood; the rhetoric of and reaction to the decade continues to trouble American public discourse. This work by Douglas Knight, who served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969 during clashes on...

"DK Eyewitness Tudor" is a spectacular and informative guide to one of the most turbulent periods in English history. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique 'eyewitness' view of the fascinating characters who influenced Tudor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840135596Author New Line BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd

A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad industry. In some places, notably St. Louis, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954874018Author Fouad Al-FarsyFormat HardbackPage Count 315Imprint Panarc International LtdPublisher Panarc International Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579427Author Mike HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese...

At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of 'supreme offence against international morality'. Thirteen Days rejects this verdict...

This is an updated account of the events which led up to and followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The authors aim to answer the many questions that still remain about the events of late 1990 and early 1991 - why did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait, was a...

This book is the first systematic attempt to study the situation of European and American Muslims after 9/11, and to present a comprehensive analysis of their religious, political, and legal situations.Since 9/11, and particularly since the Madrid and...

The Labour governments of 1945-51 are among the most important and controversial in modern British history, and have been the focus of extensive research over the last fifteen years. In this study, Robert Pearce makes the results of this research...

Planet Taco asks the question, "what is authentic Mexican food?" The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States, and Americanized foods have recently been carried around the world in tin cans...

Scratch-and-sniff panels waft the reader back in time to the aromas of ancient Egypt, from fragrant pharaohs in their palaces, to sweaty labourers building the pyramids. The text is informative and the pungent panels are combined with artwork, poems and...

Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were overtaken by the Wright brothers in America, by the French...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946418787Author Jeremy B. MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 740g

A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955781322Author Chantelle TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint DRA PublishingPublisher DRA Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619580Author James LovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700603862Author Paul C. NagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Examining the complex issues of the Great Rebellion of the seventeenth century, this title offers a fresh distillation of important scholarship on the Civil War and its aftermath.Book InformationISBN 9780333100233Author R. H. ParryFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394757797Author Bernard BailynFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993020421Format PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Alex DayPublisher Alex DayWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956364975Author Steve BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint ACM RetroPublisher ACM Retro

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954937003Author Christopher WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Royal Green Jackets Museum TrustPublisher Royal Green Jackets Museum Trust