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Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle...

Author: Jocelynne A. Scutt
ISBN: 9783031421778
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia,...  Read More >>

The Russian Workers' Republic

The Russian Workers' Republic

Author: Henry Noel Brailsford
ISBN: 9781032672977
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving...  Read More >>

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Author: Jacob Miller
ISBN: 9781032674773
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large...  Read More >>

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Author: L.G. Churchward
ISBN: 9781032675824
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including...  Read More >>

The Cold War Past and Present

The Cold War Past and Present

Author: Richard Crockatt ,  Steve Smith
ISBN: 9781032675589
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union...  Read More >>

The Way of Bitterness: Soviet Russia, 1920

The Way of Bitterness: Soviet Russia, 1920

Author: Princess Peter Wolkonsky
ISBN: 9781032676227
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule....  Read More >>

The Soviet Union: Second Edition

The Soviet Union: Second Edition

Author: R.W. Davies
ISBN: 9781032676333
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. It claimed to offer a new...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961333
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  Read More >>

Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles to survive

Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles...

Author: JOEL JESSUP
ISBN: 9780711286443
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Escape The Titanic with this exciting illustrated book that has you climbing up the decks by solving puzzles to...  Read More >>

Kairos: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

Kairos: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize...

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) ,  Michael Hofmann
ISBN: 9781783786138
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin...  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: 9781800962347
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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

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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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Social Development and Social Changes in China: From 1949 to 2019

Social Development and Social Changes in China: From...

Author: Yi Zhang
ISBN: 9789819711833
Format: Hardback
$316.77

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961340
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  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 >>

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