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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 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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173047466Author William R. PinchFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel? To affiliate with traditional Jewish institutions? To care about Jewish continuity, ritual and tradition? As a...

This volume seeks to honour Professor Gillman's contributions to Jewish scholarship and education by collecting essays by his colleagues and students that discuss the issues most central to his work, namely Jewish theology, Conservative Judaism and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028333Author Thomas ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Western philosophies of history commonly regard nature as a mere arena in which human beings suffer, labour and create. In this lucid and clearly written contribution to the subject, Blackburn argues that such a narrow perspective must be transcended...

Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing By all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe...

Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Did the terrorist attacks of September 11 mark the end of an era? Or the beginning of a new one? As Eviatar...

Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture.About the...

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...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684580538Author Mark A RaiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University PressWeight(grams) 159g

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

Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing By all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739115609Author diverse and anonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hermits UnitedPublisher Hermits United

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 9783161592973Author Ismar SchorschFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 615g

In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice's appeal has affected Western...

Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of...

Colin Rafferty's Execute the Office uses lyric prose and formal invention to explore the humanity, or lack thereof, that thrived in each of the forty-five American presidents. Whether these powerful individuals were celebrated for infamous deeds and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555590Author Marq de VilliersFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

This collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together classic essays some of which are difficult to find with 3 new pieces, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555798Author Trilby KentFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.