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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Rule of St. Benedict: An Introduction to the Contemplative Life
Author: St. BenedictFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 217mm, 335g, 208 pagesPublished: St Martin's Press, United States, 2021The Rule of St. Benedict has governed monastic communities for centuries, but it is far...
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,...
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,...
Fields of Battle
Author: Richard EvansFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and...
History of Jungle Warfare
Author: Bryan PerrettFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 246mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990
Author: Hermann HampeFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 318mm, 612 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in...
Infinity Kings: The much-loved hit from the author of No.1 bestselling blockbuster THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END!
Author: Adam SilveraFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 198mm, 752 pagesPublished: Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END.In this...
T-54/55: The Soviet Army's Cold War Main Battle Tank
Author: Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat: Paperback, 189mm x 246mm, 136 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017The Soviet T-54/55 is probably the best-known tank of the Cold War, and it...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914
Author: Michael CrasterFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months...
Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Author: Goran EidevallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 608g, 312 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2018A new translation and commentary on the book of Amos, forgoing speculation about his life...
Arendt's Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship
Author: Jonathan Peter SchwartzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject...
Liberating Europe: D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944-1945
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 240 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Despatches in this volume include the Despatch on air operations by the Allied Expeditionary...
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...
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...
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....
General Equilibrium Theory of Value
Author: Yves BalaskoFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 235mm, 567g, 192 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2011The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the...
Night Angel Nemesis
Author: Brent WeeksFormat: Paperback, 154mm x 232mm, 930g, 848 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023Brent Weeks returns to the New York Times bestselling world of the Night Angel...