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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...
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition
Author: Stephanie S. DickeyFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 298mm, 384 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2021An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Attrition: Fighting the First World War
Author: William PhilpottFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 340g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2015The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In...
Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Author: Jennifer BryanFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 280 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2008"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in...
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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Author: Tim BlanningFormat: Hardback, 167mm x 242mm, 998g, 688 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2016The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 536 pagesPublished: University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2011John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
The Eisenstein Reader
Author: Sergei EizenshteinFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 1998For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein's...
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Breaking the Devil's Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob
Author: James B. JacobsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 431g, 320 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2013An in-depth study of the U.S. v. the International Brotherhood of Teamsters In...
The Church in the Early Modern Age
Author: C. Scott DixonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 565g, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2016The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed...
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...