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Is it true that King Louis XIV never bathed? Was Doc Holliday really a doctor? Who were the twelve knights of King Arthur's Round Table? And what do Scots traditionally wear under their kilts? You'll get the answers to these fascinating questions and...

The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great...

As we enter a new millennium, librarianship and other information professions are swept up in a period of rapid, almost frantic, change. But while there is widespread recognition that libraries in the future will be vastly different from what we know...

This book tells of the difficulties of setting up and operating a joint Chinese-American airline, China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) in the 1930s and 1940s in a China beset by internal conflicts and an expanding war with Japan. BondOs personal...

The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan. Despite the geographical and cultural differences between these two nations, as well as the bitterness leftover from the...

Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and...

Law of the Sea in East Asia selects the most prominent maritime legal issues that have emerged since the post-LOS Convention era for a detailed discussion and assessment. The current marine legal order in East Asia is based on the 1982 United Nations...

The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area. The field of the history of science continues to grow and expand into new areas and to adopt new theories to explain the...

From its hasty and urgent creation during the American Revolution through periods of relative neglect, the United States Navy has maintained an important role in the security of the United States, and has been involved in many of its crucial historical...

No descriptive material is available for this title.Book InformationISBN 9780815402619Author George M. WrongFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm)...

Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains one of the most important players, at least potentially so, in world politics. It shares its 12,500-mile border with somer strategically important countries; it has made tremendous contributions to...

The East and Northeast Africa Bibliography provides students and scholars with a convenient and broad-based reference source to the significant books on Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It lists scholarly and some...

After the violent upheaval and bloodshed that accompanied the collapse of one of the most brutal Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Romania has made important progress in the development of a democratic political system and in the building of a market...

The 101 letters and five diaries of John F. L. Hartwell cover the period of 23 August 1862 to 15 June 1865. They are a detailed view of the War between the States from the viewpoint of a private soldier in the Army of the Potomac.Book InformationISBN...

This book re-examines the history of democracy, broadening the traditional view with previously unexplored examples. This substantial reference work critically examines the history of democracy, from ancient history to the directions it might take in the...

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354033995Author Frank A HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652173942Author Ada YardeniPage Count 757Imprint Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications,IsraelPublisher Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications,IsraelWeight(grams)...

The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But with over 500,000 applications now being filed annually, fewer than half of these applicants will be granted...

Twentieth-Century British Social Trends is a centennial record of the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. Primarily statistical, the book sets out a broad description of how the life of the United Kingdom has developed from 1900 to 2000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806320670Author Val D GreenwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 796Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883368Author Porter Dr aFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Named a best book of the year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs "A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." -from the introduction to the 1974...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597720304Author Janice ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Your Own World BooksPublisher Your Own World BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996264815Author Debra BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Madison Street PublishingPublisher Madison Street PublishingWeight(grams)...

A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898166Author Simon Sebag MontefioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Published here for the first time in paperback is much of a final and long-anticipated work on philosophy of history by the renowned Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). The original text of this uncompleted...

A counter-revisionist examination of John F Kennedy and his administration. Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislature efforts bnetween 1961 and 1963. Irving Berstein focuses on administrative and congressional progress under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943133338Author Oswald ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Gideon House BooksPublisher Gideon House BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782806290267Author 50minutesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint 50minutes.comPublisher 50minutes.comWeight(grams) 54g

My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee, these movies are examples of what became known as "screwball" comedies. This study focuses on...

The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officerJohn Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us 'behind the scenes' of...

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526796431Author Chris HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385265201Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878424689Author Gregory F MichnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Mountain PressPublisher Mountain PressWeight(grams) 871gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985656102Author Robert M. KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Wallpaperscholar.comPublisher Wallpaperscholar.comWeight(grams) 551gDimensions(mm)...

The cowboy, one of the greatest fictional characters in American literary history, is more than a man or a myth; he is an identity, the soul of a country that started out as the wild and unruly and has risen to the civilized and respected. The Greatest...