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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557875900Author Doug McGuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

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We have all seen the hilarious depiction of Mrs Miggins' coffee shop in "Blackadder", but what was it really like in the first cafes, as coffee drinking became more popular? What else did the shops sell? How did coffee shop life influence politics, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954785956Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750911405Author Ted GoslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 236g

A collection of essays published as a tribute to Sir Isaiah Berlin on his 82nd birthday. The essays concentrate on themes close to Berlin's heart: the history of ideas, Russian thought and literature, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, liberalism and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474968Author Andrew GuyattFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or...

This book provides a fresh perspective on Athenian democracy by exploring bad citizenship, both as a reality and an idea, in classical Athens, from the late sixth century down to 322. If called upon, Athenian citizens were expected to support their city...

An exhaustive study of Claudian's unfinished mythological epic, with a text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. The long introduction begins with a catalogue of manuscripts; and this leads to an investigation into the manuscript tradition and the...

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In 97 CE Julius Frontinus was appointed by the Emperor Nerva to the post of water commissioner for the city of Rome. In the De Aquaductu Urbis Romae he sets forth his duties, responsibilities and accomplishments during his first year in office. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822959113Author AlexeyevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling...

The importance of history and its relevance to the present have seldom gone unquestioned in modern times. This is particularly true in the United States, born as the quintessentially modern nation, where the image of a vast open frontier and the...

In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from seventeen years' residence abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the Indians. A Tour on the Prairies is his absorbing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966021370Author Jeff R LontoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 304g

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal financial interests into account in their actions as public.Book InformationISBN 9780824813031Author George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687023196Author Peter CartwrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 469g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733334177Author Hazel FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 343g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780559893421Author R a ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)Publisher BCR (Bibliographical Center for...

The history and causes of America's entry into World War I. Edward Grey could have prevented war if he had done either of two things. If he had acceded to the urging of France and Russia and given a strong warning to Germany that, in a European War,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530007441Author Nandini NimbkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004419Author Abdullah Al-ShankitiFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002293Author Ke WuFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002033Author John WironenFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 653g

Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed Europe in everything from architecture to cooking,...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and...

The Greeks and, especially, the Romans are famous for the heroic engineering of their aqueducts, tunnels and roads. They also measured the circumference of the earth and the heights of mountains with fair precision. This book presents new translations...

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations,...

This book is a study of the spatial distribution of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, and of the spatial and social interrelation between the Franks and the indigenous population. It is based on an...

Professor Rist's short introduction to the philosophy of Epicurus combines scholarship with clear exposition. All Greek in the text is translated, and discussion of more specialised problems of interpretation is relegated to appendices. In an account...

The Origin of Attic Comedy was originally published in 1934. Its author, Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Beginning with Aristotle's observation that from the...

This highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the Georgics of Virgil, of which Mr Wilkinson provides a comprehensive survey. With careful scholarship and shrewd verbal and stylistic...