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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 Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging,...
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved...
The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: Various AuthorsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 736 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2015This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic....
The Bronte Sisters (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions): Three Novels
Author: Emily BronteFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 864 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2012The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre...
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo TolstoyFormat: Hardback, 159mm x 241mm, 808 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2012First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna...
Gray's Anatomy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: Henry GrayFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 1280 pagesPublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018This is an attractively designed edition of Gray's Anatomy, the scientific and artistic triumph.Gray's Anatomyis a phenomenally...
The Iliad & The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: HomerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 752 pagesPublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad and The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as...
Children of Paradise: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Author: Camilla GrudovaFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 362g, 208 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2022Longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionWhen Holly applies for a job at the Paradise...
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
Author: Shibani MahtaniFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 560g, 336 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2023Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
The Rediscovery of India
Author: Meghnad Desai (Professor Emeritus, LSE, London School of Economics)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 839g, 512 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2011What makes India a nation? What has held...
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...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
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 Geometry of Efficient Fair Division
Author: Julius B. Barbanel (Union College, New York)Format: Hardback, 157mm x 235mm, 738g, 472 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2005What is the best way to divide a 'cake' and...
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy
Author: Martin Kavka (Florida State University)Format: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 550g, 256 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2004Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between...
Principles of General Management: The Art and Science of Getting Results Across Organizational Boundaries
Author: John L. Colley, Jr.Format: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 816g, 488 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2007An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the responsibilities of the general manager and...
Kantian Conceptual Geography
Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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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...
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century
Author: Hayrettin YucesoyFormat: Hardback, 216 pagesPublished: University of South Carolina Press, United States, 2009This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. ""Messianic...
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Author: Michael MunowitzFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 726g, 432 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2006We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon...
Victorian Interpretation
Author: Suzy AngerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 222 pagesPublished: Cornell University Press, United States, 2006Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism...
Hermann Poetzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts
Author: Ian RumboldFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 976g, 374 pagesPublished: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its...
The Shambhala Principle
Author: Sakyong Mipham RinpocheFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 215mm, 360g, 192 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2013One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
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,...
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim MurrayFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 261 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The History and Philosophy of Archeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking...
The Coachmen of Nineteenth Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness
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Author: Nicholas Papayanis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 269 Historical writings and art and literature of the period depict the coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris in a variety of ways -...
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
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Author: Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 190 In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 796
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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Author: Kwang-Ching Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this...
Grammar of the Gothic Language
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Author: Joseph Wright
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 294
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'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...
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...
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...