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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806139074Author Julia Dyson HejdukFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

This new and comprehensive story of instrumental conservationist Pearl Chase’s fascinating life is a tribute to her remarkable achievements. Spending over seventy years pioneering work in preservation, social services, and civic activism, Chase met and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939919120Author Nancy Sprowell GeiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Merry Dissonance PressPublisher Merry Dissonance Press

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959589Author Alan WinningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SerifPublisher Serif

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416570929Author Charles RappleyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223679Author Alexander C R HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250043580Author Alexander StilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 144mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985273705Author Jude JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Open Books PressPublisher Open Books PressWeight(grams) 179g

The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early expansion and consolidation of...

Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789675062865Author Sukran VahideFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book Trust

Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789...

Qualifying as a doctor in 1815 at the tender age of nineteen, John Polidori was employed less than a year later by the poet, Lord Byron, as his travelling physician. The precocious medic was seemingly destined for a bright future that would enable him to...

Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern Jewish history. Born a French Catholic, Ruth Blau (Ben-David) (1920-2000) lived a constantly twisting life. During World War II, Blau was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030595Author Marion MeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307886446Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989792851Author Erasmus Corwin GilbreathFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pritzker Military Museum and LibraryPublisher Pritzker Military Museum and...

In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385501293Author Cathleen MedwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890961940Author Billy Jaynes ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University...

In the winter of 1909, a political bombshell exploded in tsarist Russia. Scandal swept not only the empire but the entire world with the exposure of the secret life of one man. Newspaper headlines introduced him as a "twentieth-century Judas," and since...

"The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a fascinating time in history."-Arthur Golden, author of...

The life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of. Born and raised in a tiny village in the small south-central state of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911 - one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution - against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060754037Author Norman F CantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395745151Author Ina R FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin Juvenile BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm...

The entry of the United States into the First World War in late 1911 found Herbert Hoover at a crossroads. Three years earlier, he had been a successful mining engineer in London. Then, as the war intensified in Europe, Hoover founded and led the...

Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.5 million people in three Polish camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. Along with Rudolf Hoess, Globocnik may be named as one of the first...

Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.5 million people in three Polish camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. Along with Rudolf Hoess, Globocnik may be named as one of the first...

* Autobiography of a fighter and test pilot during World War II and Vietnam *Among first marines to fly a helicopter *First Marine to be named to the Navy Carrier Aviation Test Pilots Hall of Honor First published in 1994, this stirring...

George and Emily Eden were a devoted sibling pair. Both unmarried, they were accepted as a mildly unconventional couple by friends in the dynastically conscious governing class. George (1784-1849) entered politics as a Whig to replace his elder brother,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937600587Author Ross BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Mill City Press, Inc.Publisher Mill City Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648934486Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143600Author Petr GinzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764434Author Li Zhi-SuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255417Author Sam R WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...