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This book provides a basic introduction to key debates in the study of hunter-gatherers, specifically from an anthropological perspective, but designed for an archaeological audience. Hunter-gatherers have been the focus of intense anthropological...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806505497Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806505497Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

This guidebook tells the full story of this special place, from its origins as a timber-framed yeomans hall-house through to its 1920s restoration; a place that has continued to surprise and delight visitors since it was left to the National Trust nearly...

This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France. The generally accepted opinion in previous historiography was that John (II), king of Scots from...

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed exciting changes, expectations about what their lives could be...

In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought...

This book explores the contribution of southern Italy and Sicily to the crusades and crusader states. By adopting the theme of identity as a tool of analysis, it argues that a far more nuanced picture emerges about the relationship than the dismissive...

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913889Author Phil HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a...

Based on interviews with former police officers, this book addresses two main issues. Firstly, the question of how the police themselves viewed the priorities of the job and what they considered their role to be. This is the first study to consider this...

Voices of SouthboroughBook InformationISBN 9780752420547Author Chris McCooeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Beginning with an exploration into the question of what war is, War and Warfare since 1945 provides a chronological analysis of military history since the end of World War II extending through to an analysis of the limits of modern warfare in the nuclear...

This lavishly produced book brings together an impressive amount of new historical research which seeks to answer this question, providing fresh interpretations of Leicester's history since 1800. The chapters analyse the events, changes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890965726Author James K. GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University PressWeight(grams) 660g

While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia...

In this reissue of the second edition of The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 Ronald Hutton places his vivid account of the Royalist War effort in modern historical context, bringing the reader up to date with recent developments in the study of the...

This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era...

Roberto Fernandez Retamar--poet, essayist, and professor of philology at the University of Havana--has long served as the Cuban Revolution's primary cultural and literary voice. An erudite and widely respected hispanist, Retamar is known for his...

Under chapter headings such as 'Sources of Africa's cultural fragility', 'Thinking differently about African institutions', and 'Liberating human capital', Hlumelo Biko shows how, twenty years in, this century could yet become Africa's century, as many...

It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long...

The Waffen SS were Hitler's elite forces during WWII. They were the forces that were feared by the enemy and praised by their allies. During the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen SS was condemned as part of a criminal organization, however, the Nuremberg...

Short chapters, great stories, and study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814687Author H. G. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Professor Terence CopleyAEs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldAEs influence as an educator, a theologian and a churchman. Arnold was only a Victorian for five years (he died in 1842) but he has been...

Covering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 1949-2016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899073825Author Mike WrefordFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Obelisk PublicationsPublisher Obelisk Publications

This volume will appeal to all those who know and love this beautiful part of north Cornwall.Book InformationISBN 9780752411200Author Bude, Stratton & District Old Cornwall SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596050853Author William BantingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425897Author Mattias HesserusFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 740g

Richard Carr's Charlie Chaplin places politics at the centre of the filmmaker's life as it looks beyond Chaplin's role as a comedic figure to his constant political engagement both on and off the screen. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399928397Author Nigel FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wytham WoodsPublisher Wytham Woods

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244931575Author Sue PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg became the first Orthodox rabbi to openly declare his homosexuality. This book is the result of his ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. Using traditional rabbinic resources, he presents readers with...

During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411693951Author Dean BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

This paperback edition has now been reissued, alongside Alan Milward's new book The European Rescue of the Nation State.Reviews`Alan S. Milward is widely - and justly - regarded as one of the half-dozen leading economic historians of our time. To the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490239Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm