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Punk Perfect Awful: Beat: The Little Magazine that Could ...and Did.
Drawing on a decade's worth of pioneering photography and journalism, Punk Perfect Awful is an irreverent love letter to music and the passion that makes it happen.Known for shedding new...
Prosecco Party Games: Pick a Game, Pour Some Bubbles, and Get the
Get the party started with this awesome collection of Prosecco-themed games to play with friends.What could be better than getting the girls together, grabbing a glass and cracking open a...
A Cocktail in Paris: 65 Recipes for Oh So Chic Cocktails & Bar Bites
Parisian Cocktails transports you to the elegant world of the Parisian bar scene and shows you how to create the drinks that have inspired the creativity of numerous writers, thinkers...
Walking with the Seasons: The Wonder of Being in Step with Nature
Practical wisdom from poets, philosophers and scientists - alongside advice, inspiration, activities, meditations, and much more - to connect you with nature and the seasons on your daily walk....
I AM HAPPY
The right words at the right time can do wonders to lift your mood, raise your confidence, control negative feelings and ultimately help you to find happiness. Featuring advice and...
What Harry Says: The Unofficial Collection
Harry Styles is one of the biggest pop icons of the times. What Harry Says is an inspiring collection of some of his best quotes. "Happiness isn't this final resting...
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and...
Luminous Dreams: The Deck: Interpret the Magic and Meanings in Your
Luxe and eye-catching, Luminous Dreams: The Deck empowers you to uncover the deeper meaning behind your dreams. This enchanting deck of 60 cards teaches you how to connect with your...
Scientific Research on Ancient Asian Metallurgy
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This book covers the latest research in the field of ancient Asian metal-working in South and Southeast Asia, China and West Asia, concentrating mainly on copper alloys.
The 1989 Coup d'Etat in Paraguay: The End of a Long Dictatorship,
The year 1989 was crucial for Paraguay. After a long period of 35 years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was finally overthrown by a violent coup d'etat. In a sort...
British Steam Military Connections: London, Midland and Scottish
In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links with...
Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 35
The Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, concerned principally with the claims of U.S. nationals against Iran, is the most important international claims tribunal to have sat in over half a century. Its...
The Profit Of Birding
Author Bryan Bland has led thousands of birding tours to more than 70 countries. On one such trip to India a bemused waiter once posed the question: "Where is the...
Ricardian Politics
Few deny that the work of economists has often embodied or stimulated significant contributions to political thought. Smith, Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are good examples. However, the work of the...
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of
Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes PrizeWhat if Isaac Newton had never lived?Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were...
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume III (October
Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an important period in the history of the...
Bloodline: the Origins and Development of the Regular Formations of
Using easy-to-follow, family-tree type tables, Bloodline shows the origins and development of every regular formation in the British Army including the latest amalgamations and changes brought about within the 'Future...
John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in...
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the
Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--a thrilling and page-turning account of how two American...
Twenty First Century Narrow Gauge: A Pictorial Journey
James Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world's steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the...
US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Black Thursday Blood and Oil
This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields...
A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and
The poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and their contemporaries viewed as rhetorical discourse. ""A Ciceronian Sunburn"" reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues...
By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical,...
Man Who Ran London During the Great War
In 1912 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of the London Districts. The war saw an extension of his responsibilities...
Early Ottoman Art: the Legacy of the Emirates
This travel guide and survey to Islamic art, architecture and culture in Tunisia shows the country's treasures displayed within their historical and cultural context. It includes up-to-date information, detailed descriptions...
Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad
Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory...
The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the U.S. Army, and later, after marrying Amelia...
BUCKSKIN AND BUFFALO
The purpose of this book is to illustrate so me of the more exquisite items of the Plains Indians culture which were derived from buffalo or deer in the last...
The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times
Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...
Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on
When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel...
Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade
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Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade
Pity and Power in Ancient Athens
Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic...
Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul
The beautiful new edition of Diana Henry's classic Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons is OUT NOW *** From critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning author, Diana Henry, a new edition...
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world...
Trotskyism In The United States: Historical Essays and
In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le...
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast
'Taking without taste, without choice, is ignorance and near vandalism.' - The French Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in...
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East
In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the...
Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community...
Bourgeouis Hinduism, or Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare
In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini...
Sparta: Unfit for Empire
The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As...
On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
On a Knife-Edge represents the first book-length study in English solely devoted to the work of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999), one of Brazil's foremost poets of the twentieth...
Edward II the Man: A Doomed Inheritance
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Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author Stephen Spinks argues that Edward...
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family
Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of...
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...
Survivors in Mexico
West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...