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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Adrian Nathan West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 "This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for...

Author: Jack Coombe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that...

Author: His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Here, in a teaching of outstanding completeness and clarity, the Dalai Lama sets out the key...

"For diehard fans and Taylor Nation newbies, this unofficial fan journal makes a fun activity piece that's suitable for Swifties of all ages." -Billboard Celebrate your love of Taylor Swift...

Get up close to nature with naturalist and TV presenter CHRIS PACKHAM CBE and encounter the amazing animal superheroes that will help us save the world. What links whales, earthworms,...

Some Families Change tenderly guides children through various models of changing families with gentle verse and inclusive imagery. 'You may not have thought much about it, but did you know...

Every life is made of hours, moments and feelings ... what will you remember?A unique invitation to ponder the moments that create our memories and the mystery of time ...Clare...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...

GET OUT THERE, GIVE IT 110% AND ABSOLUTELY SMASH IT!. Tom Skinner is a grafter. Born and bred in Romford, he's spent a lifetime on market stalls and has always...

In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in...

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a...

A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...

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...

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...

This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one...

Japanese-born artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's career and art evolved from innocence and early success to complexity and disillusionment. Born in Japan in 1889, Kuniyoshi arrived in the United States as a...

Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-in particular it has brought radical...

A practical and therapeutic guide to managing anxiety, written specifically for those aged 14-25 by a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults. Everything...