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The book features works from the Golda and Meyer Marks Cobra Collection, the largest CoBrA art collection in America. The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale collection of Cobra art includes...

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the...

This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to...

Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 203 BC. Most...

Birds of Mongolia is the first guide to describe and illustrate all of the country's bird species. This huge landlocked country encompasses a diverse range of habitats, including forests, mountains,...

A cutting-edge photographic field guide to the birds of ChileThis is the first modern-style photographic field guide to the birds of Chile, an increasingly popular destination with birders and naturalists....

The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work...

As Stuart Laycock's book All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it...

Poems and Plays brings together the contents of Oliver St John Gogarty's fifteen volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems. It also contains poems published individually in various journals and...

What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...

When Columbus arrived on the shores of Hispaniola, a rich and complex civilisation already existed that forms the core of American cultural history. Exploring ancient southeastern Indian sites from the...

The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world. 'Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves...

Illustrates and describes nearly 1,800 bird species found in the Palearctic - the huge region that includes Europe, Asia north of the Himalayas, Africa north of the Sahara Desert, and...

Set in Macedonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel Infidelity draws on myth and history to tell an unusual story of star-crossed lovers.When his proposal to Luna...

The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...

Ralph Ellison (1913-94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser...

Writings by Thomas Hirschhorn, collected for the first time, trace the development of the artist's ideas and artistic strategies.For the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, writing is a crucial tool at every...

The first time a collection of Landseer's drawings have been brought together alongside a fascinating history of his life and timesRichard Ormond is an independent art historian.

'The Anatomical Tattoo' is an introduction to the growing phenomenon of anatomical imagery as tattoos and highlights the best examples in the world today. Working with over 80 tattoo artists...

From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...

Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In...

Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding the discipline's needs, anxieties and desires.When architects draw even brick walls to...

Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of...

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction....

Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides medical clinics, kindergartens, schools, elderly care and...

Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other...

Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for "Gulliver's Travels" and other satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as...

Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in...

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also...

This is an account of the Egyptians from the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the present day. Egypt has the longest, continuous, known history of any country...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration...

In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and mend" aesthetic...

Progress in molecular and cellular biology has greatly enhanced our ability to accurately diagnose diseases that are caused by gene mutations, changes in genome structures, and altered gene expression; increased...

On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...

In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading and-due to its effects on political discourse-damaging. Introducing...

The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On...

The instant top ten Sunday Times bestseller. The perfect YA romantic fantasy! "Twin Crowns cast a spell on me from the very first pages - I was thoroughly bewitched by...

She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's 50th...

Author: John Buchanan-Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320

Author: Bernard Mandeville Format: Multiple copy pack Number of Pages: 1058 A scholarly edition of a work by Bernard Mandeville. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,...

Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...

Author: Ora Frishberg Saloman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A challenging and significant study of Dwight's importance in American music history. -- New England Quarterly

Author: Carl Kauffeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 305 Snakes and Their Ways is a reprint of the classic 1937 edition by Carl Kauffeld and C.H. Curran. Presented in narrative...

Author: Dr. Amandine Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 298 A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of...

Author: Brigitte Cazelles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 13th century was the golden age of French verse hagiography, and more than half of the 200 extant French saint's...