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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable women of her day. From early childhood she experienced religious visions, and at the age of eight she entered a cloistered religious life in the Benedictine monastery of Disibondenberg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891640957Author William De LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788552196Author Eugene BroderickFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038542Author Peter HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther's life, Michael A. Mullet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770729Author John Drelincourt SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865341852Author Helen L AiryFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254523Author Frederick RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952485930Author Clarence B. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Redhawk PublicationsPublisher Redhawk Publications

A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John...

When Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war,...

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of...

The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history. Elected mayor of Jerusalem - his city of birth - in 1935, the physician played a leading role in the Palestinian...

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many setbacks during his own lifetime, and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his...

Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Stanley A. Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend's daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented...

Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988567405Author Mark KlempnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Night Stand BooksPublisher Night Stand BooksWeight(grams) 332g

The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy making.Book InformationISBN 9780393300246Author Roy Forbes HarrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint WW...

In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560252498Author Linda AshcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

A naive English farmer's wife travels alone to Poznan, Poland, to visit the Zachodni Institute; an archive that holds records of the wartime Polish Resistance. It is the start of an adventure into history, and all that had been hidden since the Nuremberg...

Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust that that of teenage Polish Jew, Oswald Rufeisen. Fluent in German, Rufeisen became a translator for the Nazi gendamerie, using his position...

This biography of Hayes recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America as experienced by one of its most reflective and perceptive figures. Hayes emerges as more progressive and far-sighted than previously suggested. The author argues that he...

Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, ""Becoming Laura...

Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Lisa Jura is the only one of 3 sisters to receive the chance of a...

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has compiled an impressive amount of information about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311298Author Antonia FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Recent years have found much of Africa to be a land of turmoil and revolution. Distress in the Sudan and countries such as Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia have made Africa the site of a variety of atrocities from displacement to torture...

In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances and...

This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876046043Author Harmon Hartzell BroFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ARE PressPublisher ARE PressWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826252Author Jackie Ui ChionnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013637Author Philip EadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476g

What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between cattle rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy...

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first...

The Silences of Hammerstein engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his wife and children. A...

"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne...

Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot...

Noted Canadian journalist Peter Stursberg traces his family's history in China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Second World War. Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw arrived in China in the 1830s. He eventually settled in the port of Foochow,...