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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993319372Author Joanna JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd

Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through...

Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was first published in the early 20th century. During his lifetime Thomas Traherne was primarily famed for his...

When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honour since the Falklands war in 1982 and the first living recipient since 1969, when two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089453Author Michael MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398431959Author Matthew BazellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the...

The author of the masterly volumes "Intellectuals", "Creators", and "Heroes" returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history. In "Intellectuals", Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds...

First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defence of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In...

Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the...

Irish family history is not easy to pursue. This book took the author many years following the journey of his family from County Roscommon at the time of the Great Famine in the 1840s. They settled in Lancashire, became part of the Irish in Britain,...

In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786294357Author Andrew G. PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 778Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

his book introduces the important concept of a female frontier-a frontier "every bit as real and coherent, as, for example, the mining frontier." It gives us a new understanding of western women's shared experiences and of the full implications of their...

From 9/11 to the Arab Spring and beyond - encompassing the economic crisis, the rise of China, and conflicts in the Middle East - The Revenge of History turns the orthodoxies of the past generation on their head.In this coruscating account of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975891537Author Ion GhinoiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint BtfPublisher BtfWeight(grams) 503g

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the...

Henryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder is not only a trenchant political critic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043177Author A.L. WedlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

"For much too long, the public has been misled by half-truths, by cover-ups, and by outright falsehoods . . . It is time to talk sense to the public about Unidentified Flying Objects," writes Philip J. Klass in UFOs: The Public Deceived.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244419929Author Damian TangramFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 449g

Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation...

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.Containing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782366593686Author CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint LM PublishersPublisher LM PublishersWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before...

In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust - have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really...

A history of Kingswood.Book InformationISBN 9780752433110Author Jill WilmottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

In 1603 King James I ascended the throne to become the first King of a united England and Scotland. There followed a period of increasing religious and political discord, culminating in the English Civil War. The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 explores...

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and cultural theorists discuss landmark debates about the uses...

The First Imperial Age explores with subtlety and vigour the origins of Europe's rise to world hegemony in the early modern period, in a survey which brings together a huge range of Geoffrey Scammell's own and other recent research. After a slow start in...

Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift...

Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our understanding of the Georgian economy that some historians now question the very idea of an...

The Third Reich is a succinct, comprehensive examination of the major debates surrounding this crucial period in modern German history. The character and operation of the Nazi state, and of its global consequences, have been discussed and disputed since...

Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, international relations, decolonization, and third world communism, this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to...

The County Wicklow Database.Book InformationISBN 9781845885519Author Brian WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 670gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245160Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 150mm * 155mm * 7mm

This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2. Addressed to the general reader, it tells not only the technical story in simple terms, but also of the operational use of...

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354421181Author K. A. ManikumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm *...