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South Africa's arms industry is an interesting phenomenon. Virtually nonexistent in 1960, the industry developed with almost unprecedented rapidity and by the mid '80s employed more than 150,000 people. Motivated by the quest for security and involvement...

Waterford has seen a bareknuckle boxing contender murdered in New York, a jockey who wore the silks of not one but three Kings of England, and has pioneered one of the first Ladies’ Soccer competitions in the Republic of Ireland. As a seaport established...

This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road...

Did You Know Van Morrison wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on a piano in Derrygonnelly Paddy Monaghan, from Ederney, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-Ali St Molaise brought soil containing blood from early Christian martyrs from the Colosseum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043232Author David S. BartholomewFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

When World War I brought an end to German colonial rule in Namibia, much of the German population stayed on. The German community, which had managed to deal with colonial administration, faced new challenges when the region became a South African mandate...

At Lulu.com, In Author Spotlight page (link above), look under "About" to find additional Discount Code. Buckingham County suffered significant loss of its early court records. This scarcity of records makes this tax list transcription a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306086Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 191g

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Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888305980Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 200g

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Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. The chronicle begins millions of years ago, with the dramatic geological events that formed the awe-inspiring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733646188Author Peter FitzSimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher Hachette AustraliaWeight(grams) 740g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219103Author Alfred Lord TennysonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) is a collection of wide-ranging essays by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing on such subjects as the art of poetry, politics, and the occult, Yeats proves himself to be not only a master of verse and drama, but an immensely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732074132Author Jeane SloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Walter J. Willey Book Co.Publisher Walter J. Willey Book Co.Weight(grams) 603g

A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the...

Augustine and History relates history to Augustine's thoughts, life, and writings in several distinct, but connected, ways. The essays place Augustine in his historical context, analyze his own theory and practice of historiography, and examine his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034548829Author Mrs Humphry WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Intelligence as a Principle of Public Economy offers the best expression of the life and thought of the nineteenth-century Italian political economist Carlo Cattaneo. Available here for the first time in English, this volume showcases pensiero come...

Augustine and History relates history to Augustine's thoughts, life, and writings in several distinct, but connected, ways. The essays place Augustine in his historical context, analyze his own theory and practice of historiography, and examine his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006557880Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 236g

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Even though the United States was still officially at peace prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was secretly devising a chain of intelligence-sharing alliances with future allies in the impending war in the Pacific. This work is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631571972Author Agata StopinskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 420g

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This text examines the origins, legitimacy and limitations of public administration from the perspective of the American Founders' thought. It shows that these men advocated an energetic public administration as an essential component of government.Book...

The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent. It was a revival of the long disused Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006941115Author Shelby M CullomFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034153023Author Sir E W WatkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Tracing your Family History using Irish Newspapers is a great introduction for the family historian into Irish newspapers, journals and periodicals and how these resources can be used to paint a picture of the lives of your ancestors with so much more...

In the latter half of the 19th century, Gustave Pierre Trouve, a modest but brilliant Parisian electrical engineer, conceived and patented some 75 inventions, including the endoscope, the electric car and the frontal headlamp. He also designed an...

For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800s, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture...