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Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...

Entering Islam through the same biblical door Muhammad did, this book introduces readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds to one of the world's largest, most active, and - in the...

As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...

In this depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII...

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage...

The book titled The Birth of Pleasure by the author Carol Gilligan (New York University). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn by the author Martha Gellhorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What do we mean when we refer to our "identity", and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our live? Is "identity" a sustained private core,...

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...

The book titled The Eagle Has Flown: A Novel by the author Jack Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the theatres and the restaurants of the celebrated City of Kisses, timid actor Felix Dern is famous and admired...for his looks...for his voice...and for his unblemished private life. But...

The book titled A Change in the Lighting by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Very Model of a Man by the author Howard Jacobson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'- Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain, and Felicia's Journey all appeared on national bestseller lists - The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for...

A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds," was one of the...

"Duck YEAH!" isn't just another cringy self-help guide; it's a cheeky journey through a poem and fowl-mouthed essay that humorously yet insightfully navigates the messiness of modern life. This book...

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is...

The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled History of World Exploration by the author Royal Geographical Society. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled History Of The Usaf by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"A revolutionary guide to mastering your emotional life."-Charles Duhigg "Brilliant, engaging, and deeply insightful."-Lisa Damour "A blueprint for navigating the emotional curveballs that life throws at us every day." -The...

Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

The book titled S. B. S.: The Story of Special Boat Section in World War II by the author G.B. Courtney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Bran's Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother abandons her and joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her 'common-law stepfather' on Bourdon Farms - a...

December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St...

A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...

This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....

Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch,...

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and...

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...

Philip Larkin, known to many through his poems, contrived to present a picture of himself to the world which kept many facets of his complicated personality hidden. In this biography...

In this anthology, Tom Paulin aims to represent the extended family of vernacular poets and to show how Christina Rosetti, Hopkins, Whitman and other poets have drawn on the energies...

The book titled Bow Porcelain by the author Elizabeth Adams. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians' thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see...

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia is the first book to assess the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. This first volume presents a...

"I have had the great good fortune to have been able to live an almost entirely private life with a small circle of friends and colleagues ..." With this modest...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following...

With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and...

Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is...

The book titled Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France by the author Norman Bryson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Field guides often provide little ecological information, or context, for understanding the plants they identify. This book, with its engaging text and attractive illustrations, for the first time provides an...

The book titled Message - Beth Derbyshire by the author Louise Ed Hayward. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Dramatic depictions of human forms - writhing painfully, dissolving, wrestling or engulfing one another, seated or in motion - are ubiquitous in the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of...

A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...

More than 60,000 species of trees are found in an amazing variety of forms, sizes and habitats. Every tree has its own story and here are over 60, selected for...