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The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic,...

How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a GBP20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900299Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van...

This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest...

This selection of over 210 archive images, many not published before, documents life in the busy seaside communities of Ramsgate and St Lawrence during the last century.All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, from shops and businesses, schools...

This book, the third in the Mining in Cornwall series, covers most of the Penwith and South Kerrier areas of Cornwall. The Penwith peninsula constitutes once of the major mining areas of Cornwall from which a prodigious quantity of tin has been won. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339420Author Arthur W.J.G. Ord-HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

In 1945 the Labour Government set about a major transformation of British society, Dr Jefferys's analyses the main changes and relates them to debates within the Labour party, on the nature of its aims and how best to achieve them.Book InformationISBN...

Haunted Durham contains a startling collection of true-life tales from in and around the city. From Durham Castle to Jimmy Allen's public house, discover poltergeists, hooded apparitions, headless horses, phantoms, seances and exposed hoaxes. The author...

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of...

In our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men. The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom histories are written were male, and the first half of the twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was thought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915876Author Dave MardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media

This revised and updated book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of...

This book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with new research to address a variety of themes and provide a comprehensive, rounded history...

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper,...

This third selection of Tipton In Old Photographs will bring back happy memories for all those who know and love the town.About the AuthorThis is the third volume of old photographs of Tipton by local authors Keith Hodgkins and John Brimble.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998226057Author Tina AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Malibu PressPublisher Malibu PressWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926842110Author Nesta WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Liverpool during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives adn living conditions of local people and gives the reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334876Author Linda FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 272mm * 209mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674368927Author Edward Chase KirklandFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 962g

The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was...

There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on...

"Country Lives Remembered" contains stories of Britain's most colourful countrymen and women from the past, lovingly edited by best selling countryside author Ruth Binney. The tales are packed with amusing anecdotes, informative facts and folklore,...

This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after 'Southern' Ireland's independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish contribution to the policing of the Palestine Mandate, it examines Irish imperial servants'...

Greek religion is a subject of absorbing interest, essential for the understanding of history and culture, but often puzzling and elusive. This collection of essays ranges over many aspects of Greek civil life, looking at the ways in which religion...

This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the campaign, Women Against Slavery uses hitherto neglected sources to build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions...

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women's lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of...

Votes for Women! (1907) is a play by American actress, writer, and suffragette Elizabeth Robins. Having established herself as one of England's leading actresses with her productions of Henrik Ibsen's dramas, Robins retired from the stage to pursue a...

The Peak District's pub heritage is as rich and tasty as the beer that foams from the pumps, and via its inns, taverns and hotels we can trace centuries of social history in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. This is the story of the packhorse...

This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on...

The eighth edition of the hugely successful American Civilization offers students the perfect background and introductory information on contemporary American life, examining the central dimensions of American society from geography and the environment...

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key...

The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in...

First Published in 2004. During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of...

A history of Farnworth in old photographsBook InformationISBN 9780752407241Author Ken BeeversFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea, or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily...

Ian Gentles provides a riveting, in-depth analysis of the battles and sieges, as well as the political and religious struggles that underpinned them. Based on extensive archival and secondary research he undertakes the first sustained attempt to arrive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845243975Author Pete EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf