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In this 2001 book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating an...

Talkin' Union tells the groundbreaking history of Texas women pecan shellers and garment workers who organized for economic and social equality in the '30s. Researchers with People's History in Texas relied on first-hand oral histories and extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530007434Author James AdairFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 953g

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The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964 concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand Trial. 80 percent of Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002026Author John WironenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002019Author Zhongxiao ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002002Author Zhongxiao ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998405131Author Bill CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Cunningham BooksPublisher Cunningham BooksWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982356104Author Paul ClaudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Human Adventure BooksPublisher Human Adventure BooksWeight(grams) 251g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956452641Author Luis De La PalmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Graffiti MediaPublisher Graffiti MediaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952993735Author Melvyn ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint David Voice AssociatesPublisher David Voice AssociatesWeight(grams) 650g

Creativity, resourcefulness and a strong vision of equality in America helped Black men and women to establish their own organizations despite the continuing legacy and stigma of the slavery period. Frontiers International, the oldest Black community...

This bumper collection of short and true children's stories are taken from the vivid and eventful history of the United States of America. This edition includes all of the original illustrations. A classic compendium of stories taken from more than 500...

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This book, first published in 2000, is a full-length study of the representation of deceit and lies in classical Athens. Dr Hesk traces the ways in which Athenian drama, democratic oratory and elite prose-writing construct and theorize a relationship...

During the Revolutionary Period, and in the early days of the Union, Virginia was the nation's most promising state. It produced a galaxy of America's most important founders and statesmen: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Marshall, and many...

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...

In this book Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior from 1961-1969, details the history of great Americans who advocated for conservation and preservation of the USA's great outdoors. A passionate and idealistic politician, Udall entered office with an...

C. L. Johnstone offers here a history of Scotland's noble families through the centuries, noting how they shaped the history and politics of the nation. This edition includes all the illustrations of the ruins that were once their seats of power, and the...

In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473451882Author Kenneth M BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Kenneth BakerPublisher Kenneth BakerWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368946547Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368875519Author Luke MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368774713Author Jannah Firdaus MediaproFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368733833Author J G EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 345g

Sydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The initial chapter of Fisher's work is enmeshed with the establishment of the Quaker movement within the...

This book recounts the history of the Potawatomi Native American tribe, from their early origins in Michigan near the western great lakes, to their most prominent appearances in history. Written by Otho Winger, a historian whose focus was upon the Native...

Renaissance occultist and doctor Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa presents his system, whereby supernatural sorceries and magical are explained - this edition includes thirteen pertinent sketches and charts. Across seventy-four chapters, Agrippa describes what...

Trade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action which saw much of America's metal industry grind to a halt. The metal industries had, owing to great leaps in...

Turning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption. Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat...

Cambridge scholar and political philosopher John Neville Figgis examines how ideas concerning politics and religion changed during the Renaissance. Drawing on a range of pertinent texts from a period spanning over two centuries, Figgis examines how some...

George M. Bodge chronicles the wars with the Native Americans in the 17th century, with lists of the men who fought and died in conflicts ranging over decades. The American colonists originally arrived in peace, with coastal villages and townships...

This book chronicles the war between the European colonists of New England and the Native American Pequot tribe in the 17th century. Counting as the first large-scale conflict between the incipient colonial settlers and Native American peoples, the...

This book chronicles the war between the European colonists of New England and the Native American Pequot tribe in the 17th century. Counting as the first large-scale conflict between the incipient colonial settlers and Native American peoples, the...

This history of Germany in the Dark Ages and Medieval eras chronicles the birth and progress of the nation through a series of short biographies of Frankish and Teutonic kings. The area which spans modern Germany is the author's main concern, with...

Intelligence agency veteran and journalist Edward Hunter shares the experiences of men he interviewed who were subject to brainwashing as prisoners in totalitarian communist societies. A shocking yet informative expose of the history and techniques of...

This is a true transliteration of the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana. It narrates the story of Rama who had all the 16 qualities that can be expected of a human being. It happened more than 880,000 years ago. Does ancient India and Sri Lanka have...

Renowned anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan examines the origins and history of humanity, sharing abundant insights on the conditions of primitive society. Of particular interest to Morgan is the gradual process by which humans organized into civil societies...

A Miracle in Stone comprises three lectures on the nature of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Notable for serving as an overview of archeological and spiritual investigation of the Great Pyramid as it stood in the 1870s, this book discusses the...