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A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
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Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
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...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy,...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
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Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
Pirelli: Technology and Passion 1872-2017
With exclusive access to the Pirelli Foundation archives and previously unseen correspondence and interviews, Pirelli: Technology and Passion is the authoritative account of one of the world's major industrial companies....
The Plague in Shakespeare's London
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Author: F. P. Wilson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 294
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Fans in Spain
This book examines the long history of fans in Spain and their place within the country's decorative arts. The work is presented in seven chapters which place the fan in...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Ship Decoration 1630-1780
This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of...
The Black Death, 1347
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Author: George DeauxBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1969Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the Black Death, a devastating epidemic that struck Europe between 1347 and 1351,...
Gennaro's Verdure: Big and bold Italian recipes to pack your plate with veg
In Gennaro's Verdure, Gennaro transforms humble vegetables from side dish material into the hero of the plate, using punchy flavours from staple ingredients in his unique and much loved Italian...
From Triumph to Disaster: Fatal Flaws of German Generalship, from Moltke to Guderian
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Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier...
Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City
A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire
In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...
Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis...
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...
Liberating Europe: D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944-1945
Despatches in this volume include the Despatch on air operations by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North West Europe between November 1943 and September 1944, the despatch on the...
The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: Volume Four 1882-1891
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Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Cinnamon and Salt: Cicchetti in Venice: Small Bites From the Lagoon City
Author: Emiko DaviesFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 247mm, 940g, 240 pagesPublished: Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 2022Cinnamon and Salt is a collection of recipes, stories and photographs that invites you to beautiful...
Voices in the Darkness: The Story of the European Radio War
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Author: E. Tangye LeanBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1943, Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the significant role of radio broadcasting during World War...
In Plain Russian
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Author: Vladimir VoinovichBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1980Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn Plain Russian is a satirical novel that explores the absurdities of life in the Soviet Union,...
Architecture of the Glyptotek
Author: Jannie Rosenberg BendsenFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 320mm, 1660g, 432 pagesPublished: Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2023The New Carlsberg Glyptotek was established by brewer Carl Jacobsen in 1897, as a venue where...
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I
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Sibylle Bergemann (Bilingual edition): Town and Country and Dogs. Photographs 1966-2010
Author: Sibylle BergemannFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 280mm, 1180g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from...
Juergen Teller: Notes About My Work
Author: Juergen TellerFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 540g, 48 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2023"I never really think of anyone as models, even the models," Juergen Teller has said, and "Everything...
Pia Ferm (Bilingual edition): Bread and Butter
Author: Galerie Judith AndreaeFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 700g, 128 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022The first monograph by Swedish artist Pia Ferm provides a comprehensive overview of both her marble...
Francesco Clemente (Bilingual edition)
Author: Rafael JablonkaFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 285mm, 1160g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde...
Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos
Author: Marcus Du SautoyFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 2340g, 336 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
Author: Anne BonyFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 3500g, 560 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Jean-Michel Wilmotte's unique adventure took off in the mid-1970s and continues today, with undisputed relevance. The...
Gonzalez Haase AAS: 2021-1999 484-001
Author: Judith HaaseFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 1220g, 288 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Bringing together 21 years and 475 projects in one book is a mammoth task. Especially when it...
Courts and Cabinets
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Author: G. P. (George Peabody) GoochBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green And Co., 1944, Second Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerCourts and Cabinets is a significant work by...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 860g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the...
Force Benedict
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The Cromwellian Gazetteer: An Illustrated Guide to Britain in the Civil War and Commonwealth
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