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War in Ancient Greece
Author: Bob CarruthersFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 576 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013The Athenian Thucydides (c490-395BC) wrote this history of the Peloponnesian War between the Spartans...
So Great a Prince
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Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
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...
Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
Author: Steven E. MaffeoFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 550g, 392 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2012In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew RobertsFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 203mm, 204g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2020A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
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Author: Christopher de HamelFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 229mm, 1168g, 640 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2019An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from...
The Collected Works of Choegyam Trungpa, Volume 9: True Command - Glimpses of Realization - Shambhala Warrior Slogans - The Teacup and the Skullcup - ... Fear - The Mishap Lineage - Selected Writings
Author: Chogyam TrungpaFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 720 pagesPublished: Shambhala Publications Inc, United States, 2017Volume nine includes five books published between 2003 and 2009, a set of cards that present...
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters
Author: Ibrahim Abu LughodFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 212g, 199 pagesPublished: Saqi Books, United Kingdom, 2011Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire...
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays
Author: Ralph MilibandFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 368 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2015When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse...
Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II
Author: Lloyd GardnerFormat: Paperback, 133mm x 202mm, 305g, 262 pagesPublished: The New Press, United Kingdom, 2011In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an...
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Author: Luke BarrFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 210mm, 288 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2018In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York...
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...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia
Author: Costas LapavitsasFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 622g, 312 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2019The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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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...
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century
Author: Hayrettin YucesoyFormat: Hardback, 216 pagesPublished: University of South Carolina Press, United States, 2009This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. ""Messianic...
Fighters Over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942
Author: Brian CullFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 900g, 512 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Brian Cull's definitive `Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942' is a highly detailed account...
Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions
Author: George Rodosthenous (University of Leeds, UK)Format: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 380g, 296 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a...
Confucius
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Author: Meher McArthurFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 231mm, 440g, 256 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2011Perhaps because of these humble beginnings, Confucius had a passionate belief in respect for others and...
The Philosophical Thought of Tasan Chong: Translation from the German by Tobias J. Koertner- In cooperation with Jordan Nyenyembe
Author: Shin-Ja KimFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 540g, 386 pagesPublished: Peter Lang AG, Switzerland, 2010Practical Learning, Catholicism and classical Confucianism form the origin of Tasan Chong's philosophy in a uniform...
Naval Flank of the Western Front
Format: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 288 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Belgium was once described as the 'dagger held at the throat of England', a collection of...
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Author: Michael MunowitzFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 726g, 432 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2006We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon...
Spanish Air Force During World War II: Germany'S Hidden Ally?
Author: Eduardo MartinezFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 184 pagesPublished: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza, Poland, 2019Continuing with the study of the lesser known Air Forces that fought in the skies of Europe...
Berlin Blockade: Soviet Chokehold and the Great Allied Airlift 1948-1949
Author: Gerry Van TonderFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 128 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end...
Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle - June-July 1916
Author: Alastair FraserFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Endorsements: ...'This book is the product of careful and painstaking historical detective work, and...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Author: Murat GulFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 671g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies...
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Author: Joel Richard PaulFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 512 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2018The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, shaped the...
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,...
Victorian Interpretation
Author: Suzy AngerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 222 pagesPublished: Cornell University Press, United States, 2006Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism...
Hermann Poetzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts
Author: Ian RumboldFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 976g, 374 pagesPublished: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its...
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Author: Jenny UglowFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1085g, 592 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2009Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660....
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 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...
Advertising and Propaganda in World War II: Cultural Identity and the Blitz Spirit
Author: David Clampin (Liverpool John Moore University, UK)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 493g, 296 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2014The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian...
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...
Medieval Warfare
Author: James GrantFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013James Grant (1822 - 1887) was a Scottish author and was born in Edinburgh,...
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare: From the School of Certain Victory
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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...
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...
The Shambhala Principle
Author: Sakyong Mipham RinpocheFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 215mm, 360g, 192 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2013One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles...
Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama
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Author: Doyeeta MajumderFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 240 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2019In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant...
How to Love the Universe: A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
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Author: Stefan KleinFormat: Paperback, 114mm x 188mm, 218g, 240 pagesPublished: Experiment, United States, 2019How to Love the Universe shows us how everyday objects and events can reveal some of the...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
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,...
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
Author: Leslie JonesFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 360g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder...
The Best American Food Writing 2023
Author: Mark BittmanFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food's sensory pleasures to investigate it...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Book 1)
Author: Holly JacksonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 270g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about!TIKTOK AUTHOR OF...
These Delicious Things
Author: Jane HodsonFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 252mm, 1060g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A beautiful book and the perfect Christmas present.' - Jamie Oliver'More than just a compilation of...