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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...
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...
Kai and the Monkey King
Author: Joe Todd Stanton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 56 When Kai grows tired of her bookish mum not being adventurous enough for a Brownstone, she decides to seek out...
Storyland: Children's Edition - discover the magical myths and lost legends of Britain
Author: Amy Jeffs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland" - Ben Miller IMMERSE YOURSELF IN MIST AND MAGIC...
You Are 25% Banana
Author: Susie Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Shortlisted for the 2023 ALCS Educational Writers' Award Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards - Children's Book of the Year:...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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...
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,...
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...
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen
Author: James UrsiniFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 228mm, 903g, 424 pagesPublished: Limelight Editions, United States, 2006"The Modern Amazon" is organised into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons...
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Author: Daniel KellyFormat: Hardback, 443 pagesPublished: ISI Books, United States, 2002James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating...
Holy Grail and Holy Thorn: Glastonbury in the English Imagination
Author: Richard HaymanFormat: Paperback, 160 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Holy Grail and Holy Thorn explores the legends of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and...
The Escape of Sigmund Freud
Author: David CohenFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 254mm, 522g, 272 pagesPublished: Harry N. Abrams, 2012Goebbels and Himmler wanted all psychoanalysts, especially Freud, humiliated and, later, killed, and Sauerwald was in a...
Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Author: Daniel Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas)Format: Hardback, 163mm x 242mm, 585g, 284 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2005Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and...
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...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Author: David PotterFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 240mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2011What is Sport and why do we love it? These two questions drive David Potter's analysis of...
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...
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...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So Great a Prince
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,...
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...
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...
Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture
Author: Sheila CraneFormat: Paperback, 178mm x 254mm, 376 pagesPublished: University of Minnesota Press, United States, 2011Drawing together a cast of world-renowned architects, photographers, and cultural theorists Mediterranean Crossroads examines how...
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...
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...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Jean DanglerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 230 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2005In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
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,...
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience
Author: Sharon FarmerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 368 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to...
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...
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...
Bringing Indians to the Book
Author: Albert FurtwanglerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 367g, 242 pagesPublished: University of Washington Press, United States, 2005In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the...
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...
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...
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...
Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City
Author: Cenk OEzbayFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384g, 208 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many...
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare: From the School of Certain Victory
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...
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)...
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 Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
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...
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...