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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...
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...
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...
The Philosophical Thought of Tasan Chong: Translation from the German by Tobias J. Koertner- In cooperation with Jordan Nyenyembe
Author: Shin-Ja KimFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 540g, 386 pagesPublished: Peter Lang AG, Switzerland, 2010Practical Learning, Catholicism and classical Confucianism form the origin of Tasan Chong's philosophy in a uniform...
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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma 1775-1950
Author: Forrest McGill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Emerald Cities is a lavishly illustrated catalog of artworks from Thailand and Burma, and provides an introduction to one of Asia's...
'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,...
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...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mahavira: Prince of Peace
Author: Ranchor PrimeFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 324mm, 1388g, 140 pagesPublished: Mandala Publishing Group, United States, 2006Mahavira is known as the founder of the Jain religion. His life was strikingly similar...
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,...
Alay-Oop
Author: William GropperFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 211mm, 224 pagesPublished: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, 2019A lost, early classic of the graphic novel, now back in print...
The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution
Author: Alice DaileyFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 514g, 350 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2012Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ's suffering and...
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...
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...
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...