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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061132285Author Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy. The book, first published in Mexico in...

The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical...

A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995264908Author Derek a SalickFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Derek A. SalickPublisher Derek A. SalickWeight(grams) 268g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982882351Author Kathleen BrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973546736Author Annette GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Annette GrayPublisher Annette GrayWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931779251Author Luis GranadosFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Humanist PressPublisher Humanist PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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"A beautiful interweaving of memoir and history, of driving narrative and insightful reflection." - Ken McGoogan, author of Dead Reckoning and Kerouac's Ghost Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time begins with the story of how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127976Author Susanna ForrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove PressWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780520377509Author Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California...

The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University.Book InformationISBN 9780393092349Author Sidney W. MintzFormat PaperbackPage Count...

As the once-great Aztec empire lay in ruins, an illegitimate child was born to its conqueror, Hernan Cortes. The product of a union between the famous conquistador and his Mayan slave woman and translator, Malinche, the child was named Martin...

Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling...

Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, the author explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians. The...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991118021Author Eric M BrickwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Canton Local SchoolsPublisher Canton Local SchoolsWeight(grams) 141g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985963255Author Saul M Montes-Bradley IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Tobf PressPublisher Tobf PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two...

We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better...

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Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595206797Author Philip L RifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 263g

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"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian...

Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in?...

"A great lady with a disciplined and noble mind and an unquenchable love of good literature. In this volume, we can still hear that calm but not passionless voice explaining the grandeurs and difficulties of some of her favorite books and communicating...

In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The...

The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the...

On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theatre of World War II. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew,where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to...