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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061928239Author Erik SassFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605204468Author John Lloyd StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1025g

All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where...

Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous...

For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly...

The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification...

A problem-focused and clearly organized survey of the dynastic strife and crisis of medieval government in 15th century England.About the AuthorMr Bruce Webster, Bruce WebsterBook InformationISBN 9781857284935Author Bruce WebsterFormat PaperbackPage...

Mary Celeste is an iconic mystery - a perfectly seaworthy ship found wandering aimlessly at sea, her crew strangely and inexplicably missing.Paul Begg tells the story of the discovery of Mary Celeste and the people who vanished, and investigates over a...

Peter Cartwright, affectionately termed the 'backwoods preacher', tells his life story; a tale of adventure, hardship and inspiration for all who follow God's path. Born at a time when the USA was a newborn nation, Peter Cartwright experienced a formal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332063Author Alan E. ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

This exciting book, newly available in paperback, aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland...

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into thematic chapters, it uncovers new data from the vast...

At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? Just when was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock when Titanic sunk? When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated? All these questions and...

This book is about the Intuitive Wisdom of the Third Eye, and how over time we have lost our ability to trust it, which in turn has disempowered us. In these pages we learn of the Wisdom Keepers of old, the Astronomer Priests, and the six Archangels who...

First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their...

First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their...

Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, he has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who...

From Roman times until this century the business of government has been largely carried out by the writing of letters, either in the form of instructions or of authorisations to deliver information orally. These documents were addressed to the recipient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161241Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398431966Author Matthew BazellFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under...

This book, originally published in 1961, examines the wars from the age of absolute rulers, and the destructive impact of revolutionary and democratic government on this state of affairs. It discusses the relation between war and policy, and takes into...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, known as the Hyde Edition, is the most complete scholarly edition of Johnsons's letters ever to appear. In editing these five volumes, Bruce Redford has included fifty-two newly discovered letters or parts of letters, and...

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these...

During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of...

Renowned muckraker and investigative reporter Lincoln Steffens recounts a series of historic corruption scandals in cities of the United States. The various backhanders and embezzlements occurring in the urban councils of the USA in the late 19th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244038915Author Kieran JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 86g

They called themselves the "assault generation" and they had largely been born in the years during and after World War I. Coming from every nation of Europe, they had risen up against communism and banded together under one flag for a common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333350Author Joe LampardFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Available for the first time in paperback, this volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without...

The Tragedies of Ennius were theatrical adaptations of Attic originals. None has survived; but fragments of twenty-two of them can be found in the work of other writers. Dr Jocelyn prints all the identifiable fragments, substantial extracts from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909486041Author David SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint My WorldPublisher New Writing NorthWeight(grams) 101g

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620321386Author Daniel CorkeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388396363Author C K ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458258Author Hans KoningFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 186g

The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831307Author R. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Time Warner Trade PublishingPublisher Time Warner Trade Publishing

This practical but inspiring book considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues addressed include: getting oral and documentary evidence; keeping records; the nature of data,...