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Account of the battle at Ruweisat Ridge in North Africa, where Rommel was stopped. George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the...

Includes 164 b/w figures and 18 tables. Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. Initial excavations in 1986-1987 indicated...

Winner of the 1999 Association of Jewish Libraries Research and Special Libraries Division Award for Bibliographies. A scholarly study of the individual Talmudic tractates published in the first half of...

The Keir Collection is probably one of the most remarkable and wide-ranging collections of works of art gathered together in any country since World War II. It is famous for...

A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection...

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s

Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements...

There is an ongoing fascination with war. Away from the unspeakable horrors associated with conflict, the story of the 'home-front' continues to fascinate. Books on railways and wartime have proven...

The Most Glorious Prospect reveals the historic gardens of Wales as experienced by contemporary travelers and tourists. Endlessly fascinating, intricately detailed, and delightfully humorous, it relates how the great gardens...

Beth Derbyshire is a UK-based artist working mainly in video. Her work has drawn extensive press coverage, from amongst others The Independent, The Guardian and Art Monthly with recent articles...

This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern...

'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...

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...

High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing...

This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...

In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...

Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...

Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army's...

The best of Colin Wilson in one fantastic volume. Containing extracts from Wilson's work on existentialism, criminology, psychology and the occult, this is an invaluable introduction to one of the...

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History

'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...

The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding...

In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...

In Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature. He examines the catalogs or lists of martyrs...

"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...

Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing...

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners-set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have...

This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors,...

The history of Britain has been shaped by those who have invaded this small isle: the Romans, Vikings and Norman Conquest all moulded our society and culture. Surprisingly, the last...

While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...

For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded...

Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching...

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the...

Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: "Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?" Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her...

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The final action-packed FIREBORN adventure'The best kind of children's fantasy story: thrilling and imaginative' B. B. Alston'The perfect balance of high adventure, breathless action and eerie wonder' Jonathan Stroud THE...

Sugarcane is a visually delicious collection of 80 sweets and dessert recipes that offers extraordinary flavour combinations. Drawing on her Filipino heritage and bolstered by her years of professional recipe...

The perfect gift for cosy crime puzzle fans this Christmas.Follow detective aficionado and retiree Harvey Rivers as he traverses Britain's idyllic canal network, uncovering murder and intrigue along the way....

The second title in this breakout new detective series. From the author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series. Violet Veil is ready for her next big case and with...

Cold Case At Cardwell Ranch - B.J. DanielsBuried secrets threaten a lawman and a woman with everything to lose.A grisly discovery at the bottom of an abandoned well leads cold-case...

A fun, interactive pop-up book celebrating the monuments and landmarks that make the Big Apple the world's most popular tourist destination.A selection of New York's most iconic settings and architectural...

Unlock the mystery and learn all about what your dreams are telling you with this specially curated dream interpretation deck. The messages from your subconscious may seem obscure and in...

Let's cheer for the men who have done amazing things in Australia's history and for its future! Australia has some seriously ace men who have broken new ground, stood up...

Morgan Matson meets Kasie West in this perfect summertime read that includes two sizzling romances, 26 Kisses and How My Summer Went up in Flames, in one charming package!After heartbreak,...

New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved romance XOXO, following fan favorites Sori, the wealthy daughter of a K-pop company owner,...

"Thrilling, tautly-written, pulls you right in and keeps you there! Plus: bonus trickster god!" Louie Stowell, author of Loki"A fast-paced, first-class debut with action scenes that will leave you breathless...

From the New York Times bestselling duo of award-winning author Ann Patchett and Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser comes an empathetic story about introverts and extroverts, and two siblings...