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Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics
Author: Michael F. Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Kuki Shuzo (1888-1941), one of Japan's most original thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his interpretations of...
A Mad Desire to Dance
Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 271 From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply...
God's Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad
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Author: Richard A Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Examines how the military experience of three religious founders shaped their spiritual legacy. It is one of the more startling...
Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
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Author: Steven Levingston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 333 A delicious account of a murder most gallic think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics,...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
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Number of Pages: 796
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Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run
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Author: David Detzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 371 For two weeks in 1861, Washington, D.C., was locked in a state of panic. Would the newly formed Confederate States of...
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Author: Kwang-Ching Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this...
The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
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Author: William F Stark
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Number of Pages: 240
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Grammar of the Gothic Language
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Author: Joseph Wright
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'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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...
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Author: Daniel KellyFormat: Hardback, 443 pagesPublished: ISI Books, United States, 2002James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating...
The Escape of Sigmund Freud
Author: David CohenFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 254mm, 522g, 272 pagesPublished: Harry N. Abrams, 2012Goebbels and Himmler wanted all psychoanalysts, especially Freud, humiliated and, later, killed, and Sauerwald was in a...
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...
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...
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...
Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Author: Daniel Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas)Format: Hardback, 163mm x 242mm, 585g, 284 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2005Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Author: David PotterFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 240mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2011What is Sport and why do we love it? These two questions drive David Potter's analysis of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Mystery of King John's Treasure
Author: Shirley ChartersFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 154 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a...
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...
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...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
Author: Alfred Grossmith MasonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014In mid-1942 Alfred Grossmith Mason became navigation/ Gunnery Officer on SS Empire Baffin,...
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience
Author: Sharon FarmerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 368 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to...
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...
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 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...
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...
Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City
Author: Cenk OEzbayFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384g, 208 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many...
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare: From the School of Certain Victory
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...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
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...
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,...
Hit and Run: Daring Air Attacks in World War Ii
Author: Robert JacksonFormat: Hardback, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2004The book describes some of the most daring air attacks of World War II. Some were outstanding...
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...
The Rule of St. Benedict: An Introduction to the Contemplative Life
Author: St. BenedictFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 217mm, 335g, 208 pagesPublished: St Martin's Press, United States, 2021The Rule of St. Benedict has governed monastic communities for centuries, but it is far...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
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,...
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim MurrayFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 261 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The History and Philosophy of Archeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking...
Fields of Battle
Author: Richard EvansFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and...
History of Jungle Warfare
Author: Bryan PerrettFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 246mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and...