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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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Author: Tim BlanningFormat: Hardback, 167mm x 242mm, 998g, 688 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2016The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of...
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...
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 536 pagesPublished: University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2011John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
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....
The Church in the Early Modern Age
Author: C. Scott DixonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 565g, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2016The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed...
Women and War in Antiquity
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-SerrisFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 612g, 360 pagesPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States, 2016The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient...
The Collected Works of Choegyam Trungpa, Volume 9: True Command - Glimpses of Realization - Shambhala Warrior Slogans - The Teacup and the Skullcup - ... Fear - The Mishap Lineage - Selected Writings
Author: Chogyam TrungpaFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 720 pagesPublished: Shambhala Publications Inc, United States, 2017Volume nine includes five books published between 2003 and 2009, a set of cards that present...
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Author: Luke BarrFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 210mm, 288 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2018In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York...
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
Author: Crispin BranfootFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 676g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia
Author: Costas LapavitsasFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 622g, 312 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2019The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century
Author: Hayrettin YucesoyFormat: Hardback, 216 pagesPublished: University of South Carolina Press, United States, 2009This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. ""Messianic...
Fighters Over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942
Author: Brian CullFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 900g, 512 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Brian Cull's definitive `Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942' is a highly detailed account...
Confucius
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Author: Meher McArthurFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 231mm, 440g, 256 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2011Perhaps because of these humble beginnings, Confucius had a passionate belief in respect for others and...
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Author: Michael MunowitzFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 726g, 432 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2006We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon...
Spanish Air Force During World War II: Germany'S Hidden Ally?
Author: Eduardo MartinezFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 184 pagesPublished: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza, Poland, 2019Continuing with the study of the lesser known Air Forces that fought in the skies of Europe...
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Author: Murat GulFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 671g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies...
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Author: Joel Richard PaulFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 512 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2018The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, shaped the...
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn
Author: Lauren Mackay (Independent Historian, UK)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 696g, 312 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2020The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries,...
Victorian Interpretation
Author: Suzy AngerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 222 pagesPublished: Cornell University Press, United States, 2006Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism...
Hermann Poetzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts
Author: Ian RumboldFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 976g, 374 pagesPublished: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its...
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Author: Jenny UglowFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1085g, 592 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2009Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660....
Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War
Author: Jeremy ArmstrongFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Advertising and Propaganda in World War II: Cultural Identity and the Blitz Spirit
Author: David Clampin (Liverpool John Moore University, UK)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 493g, 296 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2014The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian...
A Companion to Muslim Ethics
Author: Amyn SajooFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2010I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Socrates famously said that the unexamined life...
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare: From the School of Certain Victory
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Author: Thomas ClearyFormat: Hardback, 127mm x 191mm, 312g, 160 pagesPublished: Tuttle Publishing, United States, 2012This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise...
Fight for the Air
Author: John Frayn TurnerFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 248 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This collection of popular air warfare stories covers the entire span of World...
The Shambhala Principle
Author: Sakyong Mipham RinpocheFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 215mm, 360g, 192 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2013One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles...
Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama
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Author: Doyeeta MajumderFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 240 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2019In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
Western Front 1914-1916
Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...
These Delicious Things
Author: Jane HodsonFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 252mm, 1060g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A beautiful book and the perfect Christmas present.' - Jamie Oliver'More than just a compilation of...
Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do
Author: Suneel GuptaFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 192 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Suneel Gupta shares how to chisel away the everyday layers that prevent us from...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures
Author: David SoudenFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 252mm, 970g, 240 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2022A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through...
Fresh & Green
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Author: Aldo ZilliFormat: Hardback, 189mm x 246mm, 796g, 176 pagesPublished: Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Italian cusine is brimming over with sun-kissed vegetables that are so full of flavour...
My Family Kitchen
Author: Sophie ThompsonFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 254mm, 929g, 216 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2015'For me, cooking has always been about sharing and spending time with pals and family,...
Family Values: Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love & Frances Bean
Author: GuzmanFormat: Hardback, 211mm x 260mm, 112 pagesPublished: powerHouse Books,U.S., United States, 2024Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were notorious for representing the opposite of "Family Values." To reframe their notoriety,...
Little Darlings
Author: Melanie GoldingFormat: Hardback, 159mm x 240mm, 540g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2019'Atmospheric and very creepy' The Guardian 'Goosebump-inducing...Unforgettable' Woman & Home'Unforgettable...there is something of Sylvia Plath in...
Airship: Design, Development and Disaster
Author: John Swinfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stationsin...
Foresaken, the: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
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Author: Timotheus Tzouliadis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 436 A remarkable piece of forgotten historyathe story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of...
The Coachmen of Nineteenth Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness
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Author: Nicholas Papayanis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 269 Historical writings and art and literature of the period depict the coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris in a variety of ways -...
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
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Author: Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 190 In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the...