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In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942503521Author Daniel J HuggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Acton InstitutePublisher Acton InstituteWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration...

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 9780812974454Format PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600470Author Dean RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Volume 151 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2006. From consideration of Einstein, to discussions of coercion and consent in Nazi Germany, and judicial independence.Book InformationISBN...

This series is designed to meet the needs of students of ancient and medieval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading source material, but whose Latin and Greek is not sufficent to allow them to do so in the original language...

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.Reckoning with History begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561640041Author Ann L HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

Co-published with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, each of the author's articles in this collection was published separately during the decade of the 1970s. Covering both domestic and diplomatic history, they reflect a conservative outlook and a...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This second volume provides readers with articles on topics such as transnational marriages, exile, soccer, and missionaries as...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578325804Author Buz TeacherFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Two TreesPublisher Two TreesWeight(grams) 3901g

Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780197263242Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Oxford University...

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...

Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Book InformationISBN 9780197263204Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford...

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) 531gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm

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...

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...

From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred...

Each chapter in this interdisciplinary volume updates a landmark essay from the journal ""Comparative Studies in Society and History"". The authors set out comparative projects, discuss the difficulties of identifying baseline processes, and reflect on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510066Author Stanley StowersFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist...

The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalites. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth,...

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161610547Author Kevin M. Vander SchelFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213713Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace. Confronted with issues like bribery, the loss...

While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carre's 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stands among the most...

The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece,...

Early modern governments constantly faced the challenge of reconciling their own authority with the will of God. Most acknowledged that an individual's first loyalty must be to God's law, but were understandably reluctant to allow this as an excuse to...

After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac...