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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509549399Author Adrian FavellFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 138g

Lettering is a new trend which, in just few months, has collected a wide number of fans around the globe. It is the art of creating wonderful and elegant handmade writings to personalise cards, placeholders, agendas or notes. This manual will guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463384285Author Reinold WidemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 252g

When a mechanical menace attacks Metropolis, Superman learns it was created by the Mechanic. Turns out the alien has a price on his head and needs the Man of Steel's help. The legendary intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo, is hot on the Mechanic's tail and...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524280Author John StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462702783Author Wim Van PetegemFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 156g

In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509547524Author Paddy ScannellFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802360592Author Roger SprostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

The topics chosen for this book are inspired by the studies of Alan J. Bishop, so there are six universal activities that characterize mathematics: Counting, Locating, Measuring, Designing, Playing & Explaining. The ability developed in this activity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436798Author Yang ZhengguangFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressWeight(grams) 129g

Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island, though a hundred years ago it was place known to-and often feared by-nearly everyone in New York City. The island, a small dot in the East River, twenty acres slotted between today's gritty...

Streetcars "are as dead as sailing ships," said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue's streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the...

In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on magazine covers, on lecture circuits, and in ad campaigns for everything from milk to cigarettes. Airlines...

The world's first designated national park, Yellowstone is famous for its steaming geysers, bubbling mud pots, and wildlife-caused traffic jams. But few people may know about the many Native American tribes that visited the area long before John Colter...

Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. How and why it became possible is the subject of this cultural revolution.About the AuthorJames Turner ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809053445Author Roger DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent. In ""Jefferson...

In this book, John White explores how films such as Open Range, True Grit and Jane Got a Gun reinforce a conservative myth of America exceptionalism; endorsing the use of extreme force in dealing with enemies and highlighting the importance of defending...

In this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the setting and the challenge, he shows how the delegates...

The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's...

Winner of the 2003 Saloutos Award for the best book on American agricultural history given by the Agricultural History Society During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an...

At first glance, it may be difficult to accept that race and racism play a major role, whether conscious or subconscious, in policymaking. But leaders are products of their upbringing and era, and even some of America's best-educated presidents and...

This 1988 book focuses on the real puzzle of 1930s America: why did the economy fail to recover from the downturn of 1929-33? The author presents a convincing case that there were important long-run tendencies within the economy that are crucial to...

Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the...

They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their...

The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God's Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression...

The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from America's Greatest Conflict is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, tables, charts, and more than 100 photographs...

At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms,...

From their home bases in Idaho and neighboring areas of the Northwest, organizations such as the Order, the Aryan Nations Church, the Posse Comitatus, and the Golden Mean Society have drawn national attention and spread the gospel of a "constitutionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (Children's Book) 2022 and American Indian Youth Literature Award (Picture Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN...

Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of...

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton...

A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American West Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary...

In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227312Author James IngallsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 466g

In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital role women played in national expansion and shows how gender ideology was a key mechanism in U.S. settler colonialism. Among the many contentious frontier zones in...

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples' formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North's isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of...