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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915654Author Michael RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media

Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910475Author Michael E. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The Bristol Avon rises in Gloucestershire, its Sherston and Tetbury branches uniting at the Wiltshire market town of Malmesbury. After flowing through Chippenham, Lacock, Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon, the river runs through the Limpley Stoke Valley on...

With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of...

The opening pages of this historical mystery novel carry the reader into the midst of a demonic storm raging on the banks of the Severn River in Gloucestershire, England, in the early autumn of the year 1400. Unknown to the household of Lady Apollonia of...

Beyond a Little Learning is a collection of biographies of 25 of the most distinguished Old Boys of Leeds Grammar School, charting their education there as the foundation for the impact they have made nationally and internationally in later life. ...

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast...

Chartism is an essential introduction to the movement, and examines the controversial debates surrounding the topic. As well as providing a concise period background, the author includes discussion of:* the Chartists' economic, legislative and political...

In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the Vatican...

The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much longer, and its scope so much broader, than a single Judeo-Christian scene can possibly suggest...

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other...

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...

What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546239741Author Agnes C Meeker MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 1397gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

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...

"The Letters of Samuel Johnson" contains 52 previously unknown letters or parts of letters which have come to light since R.W. Chapman's work on the subject, published in 1952. For the first time, substantive deletions are recorded, yielding intimate...

During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution. It is impossible to understand the medieval world without understanding the religious vision...

What have been the most significant developments-political, social, economic-in South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains stubbornly the same? Should one celebrate a robust democracy now two decades...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This reader serves as the primary anthology for...

The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far sooner...

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to...

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and...

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955679063Author Andrew ChuggFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint AMC PublicationsPublisher AMC PublicationsWeight(grams) 489g

Caffeine is the world's most popular drug! Almost all of us start our day with a jolt of caffeine from coffee, tea or cola. And many of us crave chocolate when we're stressed or depressed. Without it we're lethargic, head-achy and miserable. Why? Why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398464100Author Desmond SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368642517Author Jose CaracenaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373195Author Francoise GilotFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

First published in 1999.This is Volume VIII of ten of the selected works of Frances A. Yates. The studies reprinted here demonstrate not only the range of Frances A. Yate's learning but her determination to go to the root of a problem. In order to...

This study, first published in 1986, examines the evolution and application of the policies of wartime governments designed to deal with the danger to national security thought to be posed by enemy alien residents, and considers the social and political...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752406404Author David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353426552Author Bertha UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 3mm

The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right is an engaging and accessible guide to the origins of fascism, the main facets of the ideology and the reality of fascist government around the world. In a clear and simple manner, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337266Author Hugh MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 6mm

There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history of friendship, and the ways in which it has changed over time, have rarely been examined. Friendship: A...

In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind. This book provides historical context and insights to aid our understanding of this...

Immigration is not only a modern-day debate. Major change in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a surge of political and religious refugees moving across the continent. Estimates suggest that from 1550 to 1585 around 50,000 Dutch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411255Author Montague SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...