Social History

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip...

This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848517004Author Rosemary ScaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of...

Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798732Author Debora L. SparFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...

The British enthusiasm for gardening has fascinating roots. The Empire and trade across the globe created an obsession with exotic new plants, and showed the power and reach of Britain in the early eighteenth century. At that time, national influence...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this...

What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further...

This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473354350Author Olivia PiersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Olivia PiersonPublisher Olivia PiersonWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

In 1976, champion player Roger Sharpe stepped up to a pinball machine in a Manhattan courtroom. He was there to challenge the citywide ban on pinball by proving this was a game of skill, not chance. Sharpe pulled back the plunger and released, and the...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout...

A delicious taste of the secret, exciting and often dangerous history of illicit spirits; Britain has always been a nation of enthusiastic drinkers. Any attempt to regulate, limit or ban our favourite tipple has been met with imaginative and daring acts...

The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in...

The collection is organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old...

In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape--2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925603668Author Naben RuthnumFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

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Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history--one that...

Selected by "The Los Angeles Times Book Review" as one of the best books of the year, "Project Girl" is the powerful account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and...

Yezidism is a fascinating part of the rich cultural mosaic of the Middle East. The Yezidi faith emerged for the first time in the twelfth century in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq. The religion, which has become notorious for its associations...

Investigating the relationship between archives and information in the early modern world, this latest collection of essays edited by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens explores every aspect of record keeping; from the proliferation of...

Investigating the relationship between archives and information in the early modern world, this latest collection of essays edited by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens explores every aspect of record keeping; from the proliferation of...

All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956507860Author Robert RawlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hexham Local History SocietyPublisher Hexham Local History Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743196Author C.W. CeramFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 107mm...

The film Ghostbusters was released in June 1984 and became a cultural phenomenon and an instant classic, reaching No. twenty-eight in the American Film Institute's top 100 comedies of all time and voted funniest film of the past twenty-five years by...

This comprehensive illustrated history provides an important case study of the development of teacher training in Wales.About the AuthorRussell Grigg is a Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Carmarthen. He lives in Pontyberem. He received his PhD...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the...

In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to...

An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model, The British working class in postwar film looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the...

Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736479Author W. J. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121503563Author Tapan RaychaudhuriFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345438348Author Dennis McDougalFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 170mm...

All life on earth is dependent on energy from the sun, but one species has evolved to be especially efficient in tapping that supply. This is the story of the human species and its dedicated effort to sustain and elevate itself by making the earth's...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope's address in Galway were entertained by two...