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Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette
She was known as "the girl with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met...
Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte [...]
The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]
From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Diary of a Secret Royal
The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country, most of the seabed and more money than anyone...
Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory
Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940
As one of the few decorative arts about which little has been written, japanning is today fraught with misunderstandings. And yet, in its heyday, the japanning industry attracted important commissions...
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised...
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege
This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...
Pierre Boulez Studies
Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on Boulez's music...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As...
Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings
One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the...
Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism
A German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, Otto Freundlich was widely known in the art circles of his day. He was on close terms with the leading artists of...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And was the astrologer genuine or a charlatan? In the...
Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network
On 28.2.42 there arrived in the U.K. a remarkable woman agent: Mathilde Lucie (or Lily) CARRE.' Her codename was VICTOIRE, although she became better known as 'La Chatte' - the...
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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Independence Lost
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Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq
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Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P.Kennedy
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Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
No God But God
Author: Geneive AbdoFormat: Hardback, 236 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2000In Egypt, a new type of Islamic revival - a hidden revolution - has been quietly taking shape....
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990
Author: Hermann HampeFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 318mm, 612 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Blackout
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Al Taylor: Druckgrafik
Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe
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John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings
Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist
Author: Eveline BergerFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 250mm, 1180g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017Werner Graeff - painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor - is an important Bauhaus artist and...
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
Author: Nicholas HallFormat: Hardback, 1580g, 248 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2019Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of...
QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication
Author: Marc DaCostaFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 279mm, 1540g, 276 pagesPublished: Standards Manual, United States, 2022Communications between amateur radio (AKA ham radio) operators and citizen band stations have been crowding the...