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Author: Henry Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most...
Captain John Smith, Adventurer: Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown
Author: R E Pritchard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
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Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower
Author: Robert F Barsky (Vanderbilt University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes...
Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian, 1984-1996
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Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 664 Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and...
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
Author: Harriet Pattison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
Risible Rhymes
Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...
The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363
Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Author: Ralph Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent...
Chinese Houses of South East Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
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Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Over a period of several years, noted Chinese cultural historian Ronald G. Knapp traveled throughout Southeast Asia, searching out homes...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...
Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past
Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Chinese Bridges, Ronald G. Knapp, one of the foremost experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, gives these under-regarded...
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd
Author: Hmedan al-Shwe'ir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'),...
Boaz Vaadia: Sculpture 1971 - 2011
Author: Ivan C. Karp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 284 Eye-catching, life-size, and natural stone sculptures creatively conceived and intricately constructed that stop passersby in their tracks, are the hallmark...
War Songs
Author: 'Antarah ibn Shaddad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 438 Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots
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Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World
Author: Quentin Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Focusing on seven decisive naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in the fifth century BC to...
It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015
Author: J P Cross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then...
In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't
Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
Hitler's Air Defences
Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940,...
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well
Author: Julian Baggini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known...
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949
Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...
The South Irish Horse in the Great War
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 211 On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London
Author: Nigel Walpole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and night-time...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions
Author: Stephen H. West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations...
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185
Author: John Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Author: Ian Kumekawa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign
Author: Alexander Merrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography
Author: Roberto Alejandro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 In this extraordinary contribution to Nietzsche studies, Robert Alejandro offers an original interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy viewed as a complete...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East
Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...