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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069343Author Erica BennerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.Book...

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary...

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In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953967022Author John Kayode FayemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint PT BooksPublisher PT BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 25mm

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Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as...

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

The book is a fully annotated translation of al-Shayzari's Nihayat al-Rutba fi Talab al-Hisba (The Utmost Degree in the Pursuit of Hisba), a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. It is the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789898336262Author Erik NorlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Finis Mundi PressPublisher Finis Mundi PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387780099Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998411255Author Liese Sherwood-FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Little ELM PressPublisher Little ELM PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532602269Author Michael BrierleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock Publishers

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"There is something about a treasure," says Joseph Conrad in Nostromo, "that fastens on a man's mind." And, yes, there is something about the subject of treasure hunting that continues to fascinate us. One only needs to browse the Web to discover a whole...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400064120Author John McCainFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310949Author Bart KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

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Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them,...

Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on...

Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampsire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens,...

Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater...

The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the infamous Grace O'Malley, a ruthless pirate and scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain, sea captain, and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971653Author Edmund BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 839g

In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It,...

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250245670Author Jeff NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 142mm *...

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