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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Author: Edward SlingerlandFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 340g, 384 pagesPublished: Little, Brown & Company, United States, 2022While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and...
Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing DuncanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 260g, 320 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2022'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book...
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
Author: Shibani MahtaniFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 560g, 336 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2023Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
The Rediscovery of India
Author: Meghnad Desai (Professor Emeritus, LSE, London School of Economics)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 839g, 512 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2011What makes India a nation? What has held...
Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution
Author: Frederick C. CorneyFormat: Paperback, 253mm x 229mm, 848 pagesPublished: Haymarket Books, United States, 2017Trotsky's analysis in Lessons of October ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to depict...
Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West
Author: Jeffery PaineFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 532g, 288 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2004The colorful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in...
Collected Novels Volume 2
Author: Paul AusterFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 241mm, 1052g, 608 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2005In The Music of Chance, the story of Jim Nashe and Jack Pozzi, Auster evokes...
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...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
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 Geometry of Efficient Fair Division
Author: Julius B. Barbanel (Union College, New York)Format: Hardback, 157mm x 235mm, 738g, 472 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2005What is the best way to divide a 'cake' and...
Flight Craft 6: Ilyushin/Beriyev A-50: The 'Soviet Sentry'
Author: Yefim GordonFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 297mm, 96 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne...
Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
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Format: Paperback, 190mm x 246mm, 846g, 416 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2016With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to...
Images of The National Archives: Codebreakers
Author: Stephen TwiggeFormat: Paperback, 189mm x 234mm, 136 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020The book reveals the story of British Codebreakers from the reign of Elizabeth I...
By Fire and Sword: The Rise and Fall of English Supremacy at Arms: 1314-1485
Author: Peter ReidFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 975g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2007This is a re-evaluation of the rise and fall of English military supremacy. For...
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy
Author: Martin Kavka (Florida State University)Format: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 550g, 256 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2004Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between...
Principles of General Management: The Art and Science of Getting Results Across Organizational Boundaries
Author: John L. Colley, Jr.Format: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 816g, 488 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2007An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the responsibilities of the general manager and...
Building for Battle: U-Boat Pens of the Atlantic Battle
Author: Philip KaplanFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 246mm, 240 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat...
Kantian Conceptual Geography
Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...
Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Mukula's "Fundamentals of the Communicative Function"
Author: Malcolm KeatingFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 510g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2019This introduction brings to life the main themes in Indian philosophy of language by using...
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865
Author: Howard B. RockFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 658g, 368 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2015Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York...
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey
Author: Mel GussowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 466 pagesPublished: Hal Leonard Corporation, United States, 2000Mel Gussow's critically-acclaimed biography of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (ESeascapeE EA Delicate BalanceE EThe Zoo...
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Author: Ewa AtanassowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 227mm, 510g, 388 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American...
Reform and Conflict: From the Medieval World to the Wars of Religion, AD 1350-1648, Volume Fo
Author: Rudoph W. HeinzeFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 228mm, 795g, 496 pagesPublished: SPCK Publishing, United Kingdom, 2006This volume covers a period of major change that had a lasting impact on art,...
Hobsbawm: History and Politics
Author: Gregory ElliottFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 215mm, 281g, 216 pagesPublished: Pluto Press, United Kingdom, 2010From the early rumblings of the French revolution, at the start of the long nineteenth century,...
Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest
Author: Bruce M. BeehlerFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 235mm, 363g, 272 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2009Unique tales and reflections of a scientist-explorer on his adventures in some of the...
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World
Author: Deyan SudjicFormat: Hardback, 123mm x 179mm, 470g, 480 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about...
The Theocrat
Author: Bensalem HimmichFormat: Paperback, 160mm x 234mm, 529g, 224 pagesPublished: The American University in Cairo Press, Egypt, 2005The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most...
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right
Author: Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago)Format: Paperback, 155mm x 234mm,...
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Author: Alexandra LangeFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 612g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, United States, 2022Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history." -Los Angeles...
The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Author: Richard SlotkinFormat: Hardback, 168mm x 244mm, 873g, 512 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2012In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
The Longest Year: America at War and at Home in 1944
Author: Victor BrooksFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 374g, 272 pagesPublished: Skyhorse Publishing, United States, 2016A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history.The D-Day invasion, launched...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
No God But God
Author: Geneive AbdoFormat: Hardback, 236 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2000In Egypt, a new type of Islamic revival - a hidden revolution - has been quietly taking shape....
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...
Jesus Christ in History and Scripture: A Poetic and Sectarian Perspective
Author: Edgar V. McKnightFormat: Paperback, 340 pagesPublished: Mercer University Press, United States, 2003Jesus Christ in History and Scripture highlights two related bases for the current revolution in Jesus studies: (1)...
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...
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
Author: Lisa JardineFormat: Hardback, 161mm x 239mm, 1118g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2008A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between England and the Netherlands during...
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,...
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...
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...
Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown
Author: John PowersFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 442g, 320 pagesPublished: Shambhala Publications Inc, United States, 2010A thought-provoking collection of essays on Buddhist ethics by some of the leading thinkers in...
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,...
Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
Author: Martin BaggoleyFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 190 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Death on the Victorian Beat is the first book dedicated solely to the murders...
Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953
Author: R. J. M. PughFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an emminent Scottish soldier-statesman who...