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Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840017Author Joseph AvskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061129803Author Tom WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497779579Author Marco PizzutiFormat PaperbackImprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417418748Author Luis MollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416192229Author Omar KhayyamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 130mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700169529Author Barbara KarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850544954Author Cath YatesImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043641Author Nigel DanielFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to...

‘Pembrokeshire’s Past’ vividly and unforgettably brings to life the boisterous and turbulent history of this little-known Welsh peninsula jutting out into the Irish Sea. The book is a fascinating and unforgettable read. A great glacier overrode the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914388415Author Michael PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Verite CM LtdPublisher Verite CM Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339499Author John AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793634863Author Emeka C. AnaedozieFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Opium Consumption and Experience in India offers a "cultural biography" of opium in the subcontinent. It spans the Raj and India after independence. The book examines the "social lives" of opium in India, beginning as a commodity in the sixteenth century...

The first-person accounts in this historical work provide a primary source for the war that forever changed the United States of America. The stories gathered together in the years leading up to this collection’s first publication in 1896 came directly...

It is a richly detailed and fascinating history of one of North America's oldest and most colourful fishing ports. The port of Gloucester, nestled under Cape Ann in Massachusetts, has been a focus for seafaring stories from "Captains Courageous" to "The...

The second "wave" of U.S. immigration, from 1870 to 1920, brought more than 26 million men, women, and children onto American shores. June Granatir Alexander's history of the period underscores the diversity of peoples who came to the United States in...

In the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550170979Author Howard WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world’s very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths...

Found in our archives, the Black's Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on...

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of WESTERN CIVILIZATION: BEYOND BOUNDARIES, 7e. The Advantage Edition offers the high level of scholarship and engaging narrative of the...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at...

This 304 page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524757Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Regardless of social rank and religion, whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim, Arab women in the middle ages played an important role in the functioning of society. This book is a journey into their daily lives, their private spaces and public roles. First...

A transcription of a day-long seminar held at the British Museum in 1995 to discuss aspects of display at the museum. Invited guests examined specific displays and were joined by many of the staff and other curators. A stimulating discussion ensued ...

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy's only flying "ace" of World War I to tell his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all...

Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship...

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China's heartland to its shore. During...

In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of...

Slaves, foundlings, prostitutes, nuns, homosexuals, exiles, the elderly, and mountain communities - such groups stood at the margins of society in premodern Italy. But where precisely the margins were was not so easily determined. Examining these...

A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903-1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that...

Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western society and intellectual life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created, fostered, and repeated. The...

This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial...

In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII-leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War-the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers...

In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909...

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the "paratext"-the covers, illustrations, promotional...