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The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai

The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish...

Author: Rachel Meller
ISBN: 9781785789823
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of a young Jewish woman's escape from 1930s Vienna to Shanghai....  Read More >>

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Author: Sarah Jane Mullan (University of Northampton) ,  Sarah Bartley (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
ISBN: 9781009525794
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the...  Read More >>

Decolonising African Theatre

Decolonising African Theatre

Author: Samuel Ravengai (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
ISBN: 9781009500449
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African theatre. The Element particularly focuses...  Read More >>

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India...

Author: Mallarika Sinha Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
ISBN: 9781009500227
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned...  Read More >>

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Simon Kuper
ISBN: 9781800816480
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country

The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites...

Author: Marti Buckley
ISBN: 9781579659875
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Ford Bronco: The Original SUV

Ford Bronco: The Original SUV

Author: Pete Evanow ,  Shelby Hall
ISBN: 9780760383339
Format: Hardback
$69.99

From the first drawings in the early 1960s to today's uber-popular new Bronco, get the full story of Ford's legendary...  Read More >>

The Maps of Middle-earth: From NúMenor and Beleriand to Wilderland and Middle-Earth

The Maps of Middle-earth: From NúMenor and Beleriand...

Author: Brian Sibley ,  John Howe
ISBN: 9780008669461
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Available together for the first time in a single hardback volume, J.R.R. Tolkien’s maps of The Hobbit, Beleriand,...  Read More >>

The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program: Thirty Years of Action Across Canada, from 1989 to 2021

The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program:...

Author: Caroline D'Amours ,  Hannah Young
ISBN: 9783031540844
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book describes the origins and evolution of Canada’s 30-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council...  Read More >>

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the...

Author: Virginia Nicholson
ISBN: 9780349014319
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning...  Read More >>

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600...

Author: Fareed Zakaria
ISBN: 9780241692417
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized...  Read More >>

Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat

Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat

Author: Joe Shute
ISBN: 9781399402507
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired...  Read More >>

If You Run Out of Words: A Picture Book

If You Run Out of Words: A Picture Book

Author: Felicita Sala
ISBN: 9781419766886
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / the Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / the HaçIenda

Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / the Warehouse...

Author: Sacha Lord
ISBN: 9780008656317
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Like most Mancunians of his age, Sacha Lord's life has been a tale of two cities. Then and now.  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet a Jacobs ,  Lydia Marie Child
ISBN: 9798869301574
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a poignant narrative by Harriet A. Jacobs, recounting her harrowing experiences...  Read More >>

The Great Historic Families of Scotland, Volume #1

The Great Historic Families of Scotland, Volume #1

Author: James Taylor
ISBN: 9781639142200
Format: Paperback
$105.60

By: James Taylor, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2024, 420 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-220-0. This set of...  Read More >>

The Great Historic Families of Scotland, Volume #2

The Great Historic Families of Scotland, Volume #2

Author: James Taylor
ISBN: 9781639142217
Format: Paperback
$118.80

By: James Taylor, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2024, 442 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-221-7. This set of books should...  Read More >>

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral...

Author: Steven Gaines ,  Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781800962330
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A stunning, revelatory new book about the final years of the Beatles based on extraordinarily frank, never-before-published...  Read More >>

History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image, and Media

History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image, and Media...

Author: James Cook (Edinburgh University) ,  Alexander Kolassa
ISBN: 9781032271866
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between...  Read More >>

Black Yanks: Defending Leroy Henry in D-Day Britain

Black Yanks: Defending Leroy Henry in D-Day Britain...

Author: Kate Werran ,  J. Robert Lilly
ISBN: 9781803993522
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The dramatic story of one of the earliest successes of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Yanks re-examines the UK...  Read More >>

Sikh History: A Captivating Guide to the Story of Sikhism, From Spiritual Beginnings to Heroic Stands

Sikh History: A Captivating Guide to the Story of Sikhism,...

Author: Captivating History
ISBN: 9798893580471
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Dive Into the Heart of Sikhism: Your Ultimate Guide to Understanding an Unyielding Faith & Fierce Warriors!  Read More >>

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the...

Author: Norman Ohler
ISBN: 9781838953584
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into...  Read More >>

The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To...

Author: Jack Cornish
ISBN: 9781405951289
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history Hundreds...  Read More >>

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of...

Author: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780008394394
Format: Hardback
$45.00

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If...  Read More >>

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor...

Author: Matthew Collin
ISBN: 9781913172558
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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