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This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning' strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace...

Shortlisted for 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. It is 1937 and an aimless young historian, back home after six years idling, is summoned to Berlin. He is both thrilled and uneasy to be tasked with an extraordinary assignment: find the...

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his...

Birmingham's Front Line offers a fascinating and unique insight into police culture and the problems faced by those on the thin blue line during a tumultuous time in Britain's second city. Containing accounts from the author and his former colleagues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best Local Cuisine Book - UK 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780906720875Author Liz WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alison...

Reading has been transformed in the last century or so. It has gone from being a Victorian manufacturing town to a major centre for service industries and cutting-edge technology. It was, and still is, an important railway town, but both its appearance...

Ivor Gurney is perhaps best known as a musician and First World War poet but he also wrote vividly and prolifically about his native Gloucestershire, finding inspiration and joy in walking the countryside and expressing its different moods. This book...

`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete...

Bismarck's role in the unification and consolidation of Germany is central to any understanding of Germany's development as a nation and its consequent role as aggressor in two world wars. This study provides students with a concise, up-to-date and...

Britain since 1945 is the established textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of the Second World War. David Childs' authoritative chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245122Author Jean NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 150mm * 155mm * 10mm

An oral history of Oldham.Book InformationISBN 9780752435442Author Derek J SouthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745438Author Christopher ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Timely and empathetic:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907700040Author Richard WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Fircone Books LtdPublisher Fircone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and...

A whole succession of printing presses, machine tools, motorboats, aircraft, railway engines, trucks and automobiles have been powered by an engine from the factories of D Napier and son. From racing cars to weighing machines for the Bank of England,...

Modern notions were all well and good - but where did one find a man to share them?Though Frederica chafes at the restricted life she lives as the adopted daughter of an infamous bluestocking, she does agree with the philosophy: until men learn to...

In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation to Iraq. There are two strands to this story. The first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation of...

This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs depicts scenes, people and events from everyday life in and around Darwen, from a period of more than one hundred years. Many of the photographs, most of which come from the Darwen Library, have not been...

Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616286064Author Mark PhelpsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon OwenWeight(grams) 1746gDimensions(mm) 264mm * 290mm * 30mm

Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).Reviews'authorative and detailed work of reference on all aspects of the Revolution.'Guardian'...will be a godsend; It is a most...

Some maintain that ley lines are the result of some 'earth force', others that they are the earliest routes marked out across the land. In his new book Anthony Poulton-Smith examines the origins and meanings of these ancient trackways, tracing them on...

This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women working in mines grew vastly after the expansion of the coal industry in the mid- to late eighteenth century...

I am in the very fortunate position of having been able to contribute to two waves of feminism: The Women's Liberation Movement and the new wave that is taking place now. Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life is both an engaging autobiography and a...

Cambridgeshire has charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of the county's unique appeal. Featuring a range of picturesque vistas, from the historic spires of Cambridge University and cathedral city...

McMillan's Galloway, a witty and irreverent look at contemporary Dumfries and Galloway, provides a suitably individualistic snapshot of a place which operated for so long as an independent entity completely separate from its neighbours, Scotland and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551663Author Siobhra AikenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

In suburban Croydon over a period of ten months during 1928-9, three members of the same family died suddenly. A complex police investigation followed, but no charges were ever brought and the mystery remains officially unsolved. In the eighty years...

Lancaster, the county town of Lancashire, stands at the lowest bridging point of the River Lune. A chartered borough since 1193 and a city since 1937, it has had a long and turbulent history. Since the Roman army first saw the strategic possibilities of...

Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of grace, beauty and tradition that has long fascinated and...

Lancaster has always had a vibrant pub culture. In Georgian times, with sailors landing in the port hell bent on drunken oblivion and revelry, lawyers, traders and even royalty wishing to find a good meal and a bed for the night, the city had to provide...

'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in York' reveals that behind York's gentile fa?ade hides a dark past. Once England's second city, it is built on a thousand years of bloodshed, from war to noble rebellion, death has tracked the city's footsteps.The...

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages.While historians have recognized the...

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink...

This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of...

The 1970s was a decade of change. Supermarkets began to take over from traditional stores, high-rise office blocks appeared on the skyline, and Leicester's first shopping centre replaced familiar Victorian shops and hotels. It was a time of industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172234546Author Coralie YoungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)...

First Published in 1967. This volume looks at the baronial opposition to Edward II which was more than an opportunist outburst of oligarchical tendencies, though the circumstances of the time were suitable for an opposition of such a nature. It was more...