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Drawn by the River: The Hudson River Valley as a Comics Ecosystem

Drawn by the River: The Hudson River Valley as a Comics...

Author: Moira Fitzgibbons (Marist College)
ISBN: 9798855803822
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Places comics studies in lively dialogue with landscape art and regional studies to shed new light on the Hudson...  Read More >>

Fleeing from History: Zionism, Israel, and the United States

Fleeing from History: Zionism, Israel, and the United...

Author: Ylana N. Miller (Duke University)
ISBN: 9798855804034
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Chronicles the history of Zionism, Israel, and the United States.  Read More >>

Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500

Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation,...

Author: Nicholas B. Miller ,  Ulrike Lindner (University of Cologne)
ISBN: 9798855803792
Format: Paperback
$100.19

The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge.  Read More >>

Plato's Politics of Passion: Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic Self-Knowledge in the Charmides, Republic, and Symposium

Plato's Politics of Passion: Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic...

Author: Alan Pichanick (Villanova University)
ISBN: 9798855803914
Format: Paperback
$94.91

An original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, and the beautiful....  Read More >>

The Secret Doctrine of the Jews: Jewish Theosophists and the Kabbalah

The Secret Doctrine of the Jews: Jewish Theosophists...

Author: Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
ISBN: 9798855803884
Format: Paperback
$94.91

A comprehensive exploration of the Jewish adherents of the Theosophical Society and their impact on modern Jewish...  Read More >>

A Medieval Monastery: Spectacular Visual Guides

A Medieval Monastery: Spectacular Visual Guides

Author: Fiona MacDonald ,  MacDonald, Fiona
ISBN: 9781835874714
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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A Question of Justice: Criminal Trials, Notorious Homicides, and Public Opinion in Twentieth-Century Mexico

A Question of Justice: Criminal Trials, Notorious Homicides,...

Author: Elisa Speckman Guerra
ISBN: 9781496244970
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Looking at the critical period from 1929 to 1971, Elisa Speckman Guerra intertwines law and history to investigate...  Read More >>

Governing Chinese Secret Societies in Colonial British Malaya, 1786-1900

Governing Chinese Secret Societies in Colonial British...

Author: Wei Chin Wong
ISBN: 9783031525988
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book explores the changing relations between Chinese secret societies in British Malaya and the British colonial...  Read More >>

Fragili IDILLI: Per Un'ecocritica del Mediterraneo

Fragili IDILLI: Per Un'ecocritica del Mediterraneo

Author: Angela Fabris ,  Steffen Schneider
ISBN: 9783111073644
Format: Hardback
$290.37

L'immagine un tempo radiosa delle regioni mediterranee si è visibilmente offuscata negli ultimi decenni a causa...  Read More >>

The Road to Modern Surgery: A Historical Journey Through Surgical Landmarks

The Road to Modern Surgery: A Historical Journey Through...

Author: Saleh Abbas ,  David Watters
ISBN: 9789819643363
Format: Hardback
$475.17

This book traces the millennia-long journey of surgical advances, from obsidian stone incisions to modern tools...  Read More >>

Eigentum, Bodenwert Und Visualisierung: Kataster Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert

Eigentum, Bodenwert Und Visualisierung: Kataster Im...

Author: Ute Schneider
ISBN: 9783111132617
Format: Hardback
$174.21

Mit seiner Forderung nach ""Mehr Gerechtigkeit"" setzte der 2020 verstorbene ehemalige Münchner Oberbürgermeister,...  Read More >>

""Weltmacht China""?: Die Volksrepublik China in Westdeutschen Weltordnungsdiskursen Der 1960er Und 1970er Jahre

""Weltmacht China""?: Die Volksrepublik China in Westdeutschen...

Author: Andreas Plöger
ISBN: 9783111455815
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Die im 21. Jahrhundert omnipräsente Rede von einer ""multipolaren"" Welt hat eine lange Vorgeschichte. Als Richard...  Read More >>

Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen Und Dokumente Aus Dem Nachlass Von Marc-Of-Frankfurt (2000-2015)

Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen Und Dokumente Aus Dem Nachlass...

Author: Sonja Dolinsek ,  Annalisa Martin
ISBN: 9783111605692
Format: Hardback
$232.29

The book offers unique insights into the politics and practice of commercial sex in the early 2000s through the...  Read More >>

Sex Lives and Churches in Polish Territories Through the Ages: Forbidden Fruit

Sex Lives and Churches in Polish Territories Through...

Author: Michael Zok ,  Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka
ISBN: 9783032004147
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms...  Read More >>

Witch Trials in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Enchanted Borderlands

Witch Trials in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the...

Author: Vital Byl
ISBN: 9783032006707
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Governance of the Police in England and Wales, Volume I: Reforms from the Anglo-Saxon Period to 1979

Governance of the Police in England and Wales, Volume...

Author: Peter Joyce ,  Wendy Laverick
ISBN: 9781349961429
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book provides a comprehensive overview of police governance in England and Wales.  Read More >>

Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900: Collecting Accounts

Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900:...

Author: Ihor Pidhainy ,  Ann Waltner
ISBN: 9783032023773
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This edited collection is composed of four uniquely authored chapters, each of which examines collective identity...  Read More >>

Governance of the Police in England and Wales, Volume II: Reform and Development of Tripartite Governance 1979–2025

Governance of the Police in England and Wales, Volume...

Author: Peter Joyce ,  Wendy Laverick
ISBN: 9783032046598
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book provides a comprehensive overview of police governance in England and Wales. This volume (II) covers reform...  Read More >>

A Social History of Mental Health Care in Greece, c. 1900—1920: Hospitals, Patients, and Society

A Social History of Mental Health Care in Greece, c....

Author: Despo Kritsotaki
ISBN: 9783032057631
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Politics and Society in Romania: The Beginning of a New Transition?

Politics and Society in Romania: The Beginning of a...

Author: Astrid Lorenz ,  Daniela-Maria Mariș
ISBN: 9783658495145
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Romania is the sixth-largest country in the European Union by population. However, after decades of democratization...  Read More >>

Eunuchs and Castrated Men in Byzantine Law and Society, 527–1056

Eunuchs and Castrated Men in Byzantine Law and Society,...

Author: Yuki Kontani
ISBN: 9783032073587
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book explores understudied aspects of eunuchs in Byzantium from the sixth through mid-eleventh centuries, with...  Read More >>

Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement

Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition...

Author: Paul J. Polgar
ISBN: 9781469696119
Format: Paperback
$69.99

""Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities...  Read More >>

We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World

We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World...

Author: Brian Michael Murphy
ISBN: 9781469696157
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex...  Read More >>

Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism

Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and...

Author: Daniel S. Chard
ISBN: 9781469696102
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel Chard shows how America's war with domestic...  Read More >>

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge...

Author: Ricardo A. Herrera
ISBN: 9781469696140
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this major new history of the Continental Army’s Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo...  Read More >>

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