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In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015031333Author Edgar KemlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 467g

Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of...

This collection of essays by Alexander Gerschenkron, who has been called "the doyen of economic history in the United States," is a companion volume to the author's highly acclaimed Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. The essays range over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039148338Author Susan M PappFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595503179Author Peter J MillheiserFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014118813Author Domenico VittoriniFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014849151Author Domenico VittoriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985152659Author Mary C CoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Charleston Guide Books Publishing CompanyPublisher Charleston Guide Books Publishing...

The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982761199Author Barbara Taylor WoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Catch the Spirit of AppalachiaPublisher Catch the Spirit of...

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The vivid pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery paint an indelible portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982934005Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint William Roe PolkPublisher William Roe PolkWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615695020Author Richard S RoseFormat PaperbackImprint Dick Rose EnterprisesPublisher Dick Rose EnterprisesWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595509720Author Peter J MillheiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998026633Author Jeanette WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Jeanette Warner PhotographyPublisher Jeanette Warner PhotographyWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982699263Author Jean TennantFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shapato Publishing Co.Publisher Shapato Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615896403Author Joseph E GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Dash ChandlerPublisher Dash ChandlerWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979808555Author Richard Edward NobleFormat PaperbackImprint Noble PublishingPublisher Noble PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981844213Author Lee PenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Winchester Cottage PrintPublisher Winchester Cottage PrintWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976914983Author Randell JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Daniel Boone FootstepsPublisher Daniel Boone FootstepsWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971347793Author Albert Binkley Dickas Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Shelby County Historical SocietyPublisher Shelby County Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991484232Author Patrick J ShrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Battles & Book Reviews PublishingPublisher Battles & Book Reviews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985133764Author Davis D JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Mongrel Empire PressPublisher Mongrel Empire PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981844251Author Lee PenningtonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Winchester Cottage PrintPublisher Winchester Cottage PrintWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692339060Author Tony VagneurFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Woody Creek Press, Ltd.Publisher Woody Creek Press, Ltd.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692202401Author Thomas CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Adp GauntletPublisher Adp GauntletWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497774031Author Virginia FellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987483577Author Max BeerbohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Travelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility and Masks illustrates the strategies of concealment in the experience of travel: a seventeenth-century German aristocrat discovers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340331Author Muriel V MurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six...

Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable...

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for...

Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing rediscovers the works of a wide range of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. A stowaway on a voyage circumnavigating the globe; a nineteenth-century visitor to schools in Japan; an Indian...

This volume offers eleven essays on colonial British North America and the American Revolution. Part I of the collection includes essays on aspects of the Revolution that reflect Gipson's interests, while the essays in Part II deal with social history...

Pierre Broue (1926-2005) is famous for his grand histories: The Revolution and The Civil War In Spain (with co-author E. Temime, 1970), his History of the Communist International (Fayard, 2003) and for his monumental study The German Revolution...

Supper at Emmaus traces various important intellectual topics from the ancient world to the modern period. Generally, as in its treatment of the question of whether the long-standing contrast between cyclical and linear views of history is helpful, it...

Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors-all former students of the distinguished Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274772809Author Edgeir BenumFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 296g