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The A to Z of the Eisenhower Era by Burton I. Kaufman 9780810871502
RRP: £45.00£39.18U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower first entered into the public eye during World War II as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1952, he was elected as the 34th President of the United States and served two terms. During those... -
Plautus: Three Comedies by Titus Maccius Plautus 9780819198150
RRP: £52.00£45.11This work translates three plays by Plautus, who combined Italian farce with the more polished Greek form of comedy. The text also presents discussions of the origins of Roman comedy, the realities of slavery, the role of women in Roman society and the... -
The Traditions of the Western World (Abridged) by J. H. Hexter 9780819111807
RRP: £61.00£52.73Originally published by Rand McNally in 1967 and now out-of-print, the first edition of The Traditions of the Western World, edited by J.H. Hexter with the assistance of John W. Snyder, Peter Riesenberg, Franklin L. Ford, and Klaus Epstein, provided... -
Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989 by Michael Long 9780742536500
RRP: £117.00£101.24In December 1989, VOclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the... -
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary by Kent J. McGaughy 9780742533844
RRP: £123.00£106.36Richard Henry Lee played a pivotal role during the American Revolution, yet he remains one of the most misunderstood revolutionaries. His contemporaries, as well as modern historians, deemed him a political opportunist or dismissed him as an enigma. In... -
Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle by Vitaly V. Naumkin 9780742529304
RRP: £48.00£41.72This original study by distinguished scholar Vitaly V. Naumkin offers an authoritative analysis of the key militant Islamic organizations in Central Asia. Long veiled in secrecy, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Hizb at-Tahrir al-Islami, and the... -
The A to Z of the Welfare State by Professor Bent Greve 9780810868373
RRP: £45.00£39.49Generally, the term "welfare state" refers to an ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive and universal welfare for its citizens. Among other things, it determines under what conditions... -
Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture by G. Harvey Summ 9780842024921
RRP: £42.00£36.64This selection of excerpts and essays delineates Brazilian culture as exemplified by its people. Two pieces that provide a general overview of Brazilian peoples are followed by four chronological sections, each of which is preceded by a historical sketch... -
Milestones in Western Civilization: Selected Readings, The Renaissance through Waterloo by Joan Mickelson-Gaughan 9780810845237
RRP: £72.00£63.21This three-volume anthology contains excerpts and full-length articles from the primary source materials in European history. The first volume runs from Homer through the Middle Ages; the second from the Renaissance through the age of Napoleon; and the... -
America and Australia by Randall Doyle 9780761832720
RRP: £39.00£34.10America and Australia, especially Tasmania, are experiencing tremendous change on many levels. This book examines the developments and trends, and discusses what the 21st century will bring to both countries. America and Australia will appeal greatly to... -
Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai 9780759104587
RRP: £48.00£42.45Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of... -
Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai 9780759104570
RRP: £111.00£97.29Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of... -
A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries by David Carr 9780759110199
RRP: £105.00£90.99Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility. Each of the essays in A Place Not a Place examines the ways these and other cultural institutions influence us and proposes ways to... -
The Impact of Technology on Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Library Collections by R. N. Sharma 9780810854482
RRP: £72.00£62.81Libraries have been part of the human civilization for centuries by playing an important role in the development of people and societies and being instrumental in storing and retrieving information for scholars and other users. Many changes have been... -
A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship by Melody Layton Mcmahon 9780810858534
RRP: £79.00£68.79As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field. Essays and papers... -
American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics by Peter W. Schramm 9780847678204
RRP: £52.00£45.11To address the growing concern about the decline of political parties in American politics and the consequences this might have for America's constitutional democracy, the twelve leading constitutional scholars who contribute to this volume examine the... -
The Human Tradition in Modern Russia by William B. Husband 9780842028578
RRP: £36.00£31.55By integrating the human dimension into Russian history, this lively textbook introduces Russian social history since 1861 to readers in provocative and interesting new ways. The essays in this unique collection are based largely on previously classified... -
Paradigms Lost: The Life and Deaths of the Printed Word by William Sonn 9780810852624
RRP: £57.00£49.74Four times in western history: in the 1400s, the early 1800s, the 1880s, and again in the mid-20th century, we learned to duplicate and disseminate the printed word more cheaply. And each time strange events followed. For with each of these changes in... -
A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries by David Carr 9780759110205
RRP: £41.00£35.79Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility. Each of the essays in A Place Not a Place examines the ways these and other cultural institutions influence us and proposes ways to... -
Nationalism, Industrialization, and Democracy 1815-1914 by Thomas Garden Barnes 9780819110794
RRP: £66.00£56.96To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780819110794Author Thomas Garden BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press... -
Transcendental Wife: The Life of Abigail May Alcott by Cynthia H. Barton 9780761803867
RRP: £85.00£73.91Transcendental Wife tells the story of Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), a 19th-century wife and mother, who accepted the view that women best served society and moral authority by supporting involved husbands and by nurturing future citizens, the children... -
Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History by Ron Hans Pahl 9781578866533
RRP: £43.00£37.88The purpose of Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History, Volume 2 is simple-to make the teaching and learning of history a powerful and enjoyable experience in the classroom. All too often students say that history is the most boring subject they... -
A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey by Barbara Clayton 9780739107225
RRP: £100.00£86.72A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replication of... -
War Crimes and Laws of War by David A. Wells 9780819179326
RRP: £52.00£45.11This updated and revised second edition of Donald A. Wells's popular 'War Crimes and Laws of War', originally published in 1984, traces the rules of war since ancient times. The major sources of the rules or 'laws' of war are explored: the congresses of... -
W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover Commissions to Haiti (1930) by Robert M. Spector 9780819139757
RRP: £57.00£49.34This book details the tragedy of our withdrawal from Haiti and summarizes through it the failure of our entire Latin American policy. In effect, the author states the Good Neighbor Policy of the Hoover-Roosevelt administrations became the Forgotten... -
Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence by William E. French 9780742537422
RRP: £111.00£96.52Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather... -
Great Stories of World War II: An Annotated Bibliography of Eyewitness War-Related Books Written and Published Between 1940 and 1946 by Arthur Coleman 9780810850491
RRP: £52.00£45.11The first personal narrative about World War II was published two months after America entered the war on December 8, 1941. Between then and the year following the end of the war, over 500 of these narratives were published to feed the public's need to... -
The A to Z of the League of Nations by Anique H.M.van Ginneken 9780810868670
RRP: £45.00£39.49Created in 1919 shortly after World War I, the League of Nations was principally designed to put an end to war. But it went into hibernation when World War II broke out and was formally wound up in 1946. Not having achieved its primary objective, it was... -
Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions by Laura Peers 9780759110625
RRP: £41.00£36.08Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves... -
Books on Colour 1495-2020: History and Bibliography by Roy Osborne 9781471716348
RRP: £18.00£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471716348Author Roy OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 381g -
The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression by Neil A. Wynn 9780810868144
RRP: £45.00£39.18This volume examines significant individuals and developments in American political, economic, social, and cultural history between the years 1913 and 1933. It was a time of momentous change including involvement in World War I, the Red Scare, the Jazz... -
The A to Z of Homosexuality by Brent L. Pickett 9780810871595
RRP: £45.00£39.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry by Marius S. Vassiliou 9780810871533
RRP: £45.00£40.49The world as we have known it for the past century would have been very different without petroleum. Petroleum, particularly in the form of crude oil and its refined products, has been central to all aspects of modern industrial society and has been a... -
Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877 by Blaine T. Browne 9780742561915
RRP: £113.00£98.22Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history... -
The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny by Terry Corps 9780810868502
RRP: £45.00£39.58The brief period from 1829 to 1849 was one of the most important in American history. During just two decades, the American government was strengthened, the political system consolidated, and the economy diversified. All the while literature and the... -
German Radical Pietism by Hans Schneider 9780810858176
RRP: £68.00£59.13Pietism is increasingly recognized as the most important movement in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Simply put, early Protestant reformers were concerned with reforming the doctrine and beliefs of Christians... -
The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy since the Cold War by Professor Tom Lansford 9780810875548
RRP: £45.00£39.18The post-Cold War diplomacy of the United States evolved in stages that reflected changes in the international system. Through the 1990s, the nation's foreign affairs were marked by an evolution away from the post-World War II focus on security and... -
Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology by Sarah Milledge Nelson 9780759110823
RRP: £45.00£39.49Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the... -
The A to Z of the Old South by William L. Richter 9780810868342
RRP: £45.00£39.58Being considerably different from other regions of the country, most notably regarding its fervent practice of slavery, the land south of the Mason-Dixon line, because of slavery, enjoyed an exceptional prominence in politics, and after the invention of... -
The A to Z of Logic by Harry J. Gensler 9780810875968
RRP: £45.00£39.18The A to Z of Logic introduces the central concepts of the field in a series of brief, non-technical, cross-referenced dictionary entries. The 352 alphabetically arranged entries give a clear, basic introduction to a very broad range of logical topics...