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Journey through the darker side of Cardiff and the surrounding valleys, an area steeped in ancient history and ghostly goings-on. Because of its rich cultural past, it is riddled with numerous tales of ghosts and hauntings, both old and new. Drawing on...

The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to...

Clevedon was a small but prosperous farming settlement until the population outgrew the houses and cottages available in the late eighteenth century. These were replaced by comfortable Regency villas, followed later by the Victorian mansions and large...

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918881Author Corinne BrazierFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Mapseeker Digital LtdPublisher Mapseeker Digital Ltd

The Armies of the Caliphs is the first major study of the relationship between army and society in the early Islamic period, and reveals the pivotal role of the military in politics.Through a thorough examination of recruitment, payment, weaponry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888672Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 20mm

Leigh-on-Sea was described in 1565 as 'a very proper town, well-furnished with good mariners, where commonly tall ships do ride'; during its heyday it had close associations with the Royal Navy. Following the decline of shipbuilding the town became known...

Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than sixty photographs, this collection of grisly tales explores the darker side of the Lake District's past. It features the tale of the 'Keswick Imposter', who seduced and bigamously...

Worcestershire is a county of contrasts, with one face turned to the modern buzz of Birmingham and the other turned towards the quiet rural landscape of the West Country. Its folk tales reflect this dichotomy, with some stories based in the fears and...

A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162507Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

DEVON has a great sense of its own separate history. Throughout the centuries it was relatively isolated, with two long coastlines and comparatively short land boundaries, both ancient: Celtic Cornwall to the west and the rest of England to the east...

Expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battleExpertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battleAbout the AuthorPeter Cozzens is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and the author of No Better Place...

One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors...

This fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs shows many scenes from the recent past of this attractive seaside town on the Yorkshire coast. The town was once described as 'consisting of three streets, one known in parts as Westgate, Market...

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the...

A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of  human–nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and...

According to the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Parisi tribe occupied the area of the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire during the Roman period. Over the last few decades our understanding of this region and its inhabitants has been transformed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913742Author Pat CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national, cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed the works of artists,...

First published in 1983, John Miller's Glorious Revolution established itself as the standard introduction to the subject. It examines the dramatic events themselves and demonstrates the profound impact the Revolution had on subsequent British history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336306Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617103Author Arwel VittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788881319Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

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Defining what is hidden in a city is not easy. In some cases, buildings are not open to public view, well off the beaten track, or are simply forgotten amidst the rapidly changing environment of a fast growing city. In other cases, we are looking at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486422190Author Joanne OlianFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781326406677Author Martin GeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913768249Author Marion PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Fenix Flames Publishing LtdPublisher Fenix Flames Publishing Ltd

In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York,...

Containing information regarding the geology, ecology, and history of the terrain, this walkers guide to Richmond Park includes both its political history (its medieval and post medieval ownership) and also its socio-economic history - how its natural...

For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035835737Author Peter StaveleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd