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There's No Such Word As Can't

There's No Such Word As Can't

Author: Patricia Glasswell
ISBN: 9781068674204
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Patricia Glasswell remembers her childhood, as World War II begins, and the resilience (and laughter) that comes...  Read More >>

Historical Roots of the Wondertale

Historical Roots of the Wondertale

Author: Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ,  Miriam Shrager
ISBN: 9780253074027
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly...  Read More >>

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early...

Author: Indira Ghose
ISBN: 9780691269993
Format: Hardback
$180.00

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf al-Thaqafi, 694–714

The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq...

Author: Pamela Klasova
ISBN: 9780520420700
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region

The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and...

Author: Hannah Shepherd
ISBN: 9780520405288
Format: Hardback
$157.95

In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades...  Read More >>

The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America

The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic...

Author: Theodore Gordon
ISBN: 9780520410183
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box...  Read More >>

The World in Flames: A Global History of the Seven Years' War

The World in Flames: A Global History of the Seven Years'...

Author: Marian Füssel ,  Brían Hanrahan
ISBN: 9780231202404
Format: Hardback
$298.95

The World in Flames is a bottom-up history of the Seven Years’ War, exploring this epochal conflict from the perspective...  Read More >>

Barbary Entanglements: Realizing American Independence on the World Stage

Barbary Entanglements: Realizing American Independence...

Author: John M. Chamberlin
ISBN: 9780813954097
Format: Hardback
$277.00

How the United States’ confrontation with North African raiders established its legitimacy on the world stage For...  Read More >>

Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement

Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the...

Author: Jon Coburn
ISBN: 9781625348876
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Illuminating a powerful yet underappreciated force in the American peace and women's movements On November 1,...  Read More >>

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching: Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching:...

Author: April C. E. Langley ,  Melba Joyce Boyd
ISBN: 9780814349892
Format: Paperback
$80.99

This timely examination of early Black Christian women and their writing reminds us of the importance of retrieving...  Read More >>

Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century

Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity...

Author: Beth Robinson
ISBN: 9781478032793
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Beth Robinson examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Bêtes Noires: Sorcery As History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Bêtes Noires: Sorcery As History in the Haitian-Dominican...

Author: Lauren Derby
ISBN: 9781478032786
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on...  Read More >>

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence...

Author: Steven Sarson
ISBN: 9780813953977
Format: Paperback
$80.99

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson...  Read More >>

Beyond the Bataan Death March: The Life and Times of K. L. Berry

Beyond the Bataan Death March: The Life and Times of...

Author: Dana Frazee
ISBN: 9781648433269
Format: Paperback
$104.00

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the...  Read More >>

Imagining Early American Jews

Imagining Early American Jews

Author: Michael Hoberman (Professor of English Studies, Professor of English Studies, Fitchburg State University)
ISBN: 9780197804599
Format: Hardback
$64.95

Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the...  Read More >>

Vickers Tanks in Poland

Vickers Tanks in Poland

Author: Adam Jońca ,  Adam Jońca
ISBN: 9788367227551
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

Author: Scott Kaufman (Francis Marion University, USA)
ISBN: 9781119187271
Format: Paperback
$75.95

With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of...  Read More >>

Camera ON 35 Barbarossa Victims vol. 2

Camera ON 35 Barbarossa Victims vol. 2

Author: Tomasz J. Kopański
ISBN: 9788367227872
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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The Secret Zodiac: The Hidden Art in Mediaeval Astrology

The Secret Zodiac: The Hidden Art in Mediaeval Astrology...

Author: Fred Gettings
ISBN: 9781041125754
Format: Hardback
$147.00

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War of My Fathers: Life Under the Death's Head

War of My Fathers: Life Under the Death's Head

Author: Alexander De Chastelaine
ISBN: 9781636246215
Format: Hardback
$69.99

This deeply personal history traces the experiences of two men who fought for the German Army on the Eastern Front...  Read More >>

Retro Australia: The way we were back in the day

Retro Australia: The way we were back in the day

Author: Ian Collis
ISBN: 9781760798499
Format: Hardback
$60.00

Retro Australia is a fantastic visual throw-back to 1950 s through to the 1970 s era with a collectionof rare and...  Read More >>

In Raiment of Needlework

In Raiment of Needlework

Author: Elizabeth Marchbanks ,  Marian Rakestraw
ISBN: 9798330362936
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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Currency Wars: How Money Became the World's Most Powerful Weapon

Currency Wars: How Money Became the World's Most Powerful...

Author: Omar Al-Masri
ISBN: 9789390349982
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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