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The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This...

14 essays cover cities in United States, Canada, England, France, and Columbia. Contributors include Norman Birnbaum, Stuart Blumin, Michael Frisch, Clyde Griffen, Herbert Gutman, Michael Katz, Peter Knights, Lynn Lees, Anthony Maingot, Joan Scott, Leo...

R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues--Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras--bring these classic texts to life for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to...

Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that proved crucial to building the first advanced...

"Bonnie Smith weaves biography and oral history into this vivid life of Madame Lucie, concierge of a Paris [apartment building] and witness of nearly a century of French history. Both Smith and Madame Lucie are brilliant, flexible storytellers who...

A history of the Warren Court and its impact on the political and legal system. Best known for its treatment of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which Bickel believed was headed for obsolescence and abandonment. Based on the Oliver Wendell...

The Mexicano population of Crystal City, Texas (Cristal in Spanish) staged two electoral revolts in the 1960s and 1970s, winning control of the city council and school board. This text examines the rise of the Chicano political movement in Cristal and...

A detailed analysis of Soviet historiography between 1956 and 1966 and the special tensions placed on the Soviet historian of that period. Historiography in the USSR is charged to an unprecedented degree with the functions of socializing future...

The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame are several distinct subthemes: the process of industrialization in Europe...

This monograph provides clarification around some of the disputable interpretations connected to the "Koroghlu" Epos. Some twenty different nations of the world have varying accounts concerning the history of creation and the national...

During Napoleonic times there was great concern that the French could invade England through Cornwall's undefended coasts, rivers and harbours. Due to this apprehension many areas assembled volunteer artillery companies to guard and protect their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244868635Author Sue PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244917166Author Martin HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244909017Author Mark C SmithFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Europe eh? Curved bananas made illegal! 11 inch pizzas banned! Acres outlawed! Ambulances turn yellow for Europe! Army's gun salute banned as too noisy! Bagpipes to be made illegal! Brandy Butter Banned! British lav to be replaced with Euro-loo! British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244624132Author Julian R PaylerFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

On the periphery of society has always been those who break the rules. Those who steal, cheat, kill or just do what they need to do to survive. The Dawn of Crime is a volumed account of some of the most fascinating criminal profiles ever recorded...

The aim of this book is to draw attention to the many interesting building features and monuments present in and around the four villages and surrounding farms and hamlets in north Northumberland. It is a 'potterer's guide' to local building styles and...

Q thoroughly enjoyed his annual routines but none more than Christmas. This volume contains five stories all related to Christmas. I Saw Three Ships which tells the tale of three wrecks at Christmas and the appearance of a mysterious sailor who disrupts...

The Squashed edition of Voyages of Discovery by Captain James Cook. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable...

This is volume 2 of James Orange History of Nottingham. During the Industrial Revolution, much of Nottingham's prosperity was founded on the textile industry; in particular, the city became an internationally important centre of lace manufacture. In 1831...

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum [commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire], his only extant work except for the...

The Hertfordshire Masters? Lodge was formed in 1920, and many of its Worshipful Masters and Brethren served in the armed forces before, during, and after the Second World War. This book serves as a record of the military careers of some of those...

Nasir has spent the bulk of his life trying to find stability and comfort, a known path but an unexpected moment throws him off balance. Just when he starts questioning his wants and needs, an opportunity presents which leads him to another that just...

A Concise Treatise on Sumerian and Babylonian Music Theory including the following texts: 1 - nabnBook InformationISBN 9780244705916Author Richard DumbrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 218g

In 1855 19 year old chemistry student, future economist and logician William Stanley Jevons came to work as an assayer at the new Royal Mint in Sydney. Jevons and his colleague came to live in Annangrove Cottage on the Parramatta Road. Jevons many...

C1934 facsimile of the maps and plans of Perth and surrounding suburbs, including businesses and comments on each suburbs. NOTE; scans are from an old damaged book and some page edges are missing some information.Book InformationISBN 9780244471965Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244473211Author Josh HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 73g

The Hertfordshire Masters? Lodge was formed in 1920, and many of its Worshipful Masters and Brethren served in the armed forces before, during, and after the Second World War. This book serves as a record of the military careers of some of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244521004Author Heath HampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 148g

Culloden battle, babe in arms attacked! Burns ancestor & Smiths with Gordons; Gordon Highlanders in WWI. Culloden's ethnic cleansing on Cumberland's orders, blamed `no quarter' on Murray. Charles assisted escape. Rev. ministers prove Cumberland's...

This is the story of James Grant and Isabella Masson who in 1838 migrated from their Scottish homeland with their children to the new colony of South Australia aboard the "Platina". It traces their ancestors back to the earliest Scottish...

William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O'Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Senator Yeats's wife,...

The Squashed edition of The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable...

An Introduction to Stonehenge and the Preseli Bluestone. The Bluestone Experiment results, The Preseli Triangle, The Pont Saeson Enigma unwravelled and much more.Book InformationISBN 9780244431549Author Neil A ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint...

This volume, the sixth in the series, contains Q's retelling of the adventures of two St. Ives fishermen who were imprisoned by Napoleon for 10 years together with their diaries and an introduction by, the Cornish fishing magnate, Sir Edward Hain who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244408046Author Julia GasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 132g

The Hertfordshire Masters' Lodge was formed in 1920, and many of its Founders, early Worshipful Masters, and Brethren served in the armed forces before and during the Great War. This book serves as a record of the military careers of some of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244400446Author John CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244331382Author BoethiusFormat HardbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g