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The Noble Quest: Explorers and Adventurers in a Golden Age of Scientific Discovery

The Noble Quest: Explorers and Adventurers in a Golden...

Author: Stephen R. Bown
ISBN: 9781837050482
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Profiling 9 important naturalists of the pre-Darwinian age who set off to quantify, categorize and rationally explain...  Read More >>

Intersectionality in ‘Folk’ Performance through Identity and Expression

Intersectionality in ‘Folk’ Performance through Identity...

Author: Jashodhara Sen
ISBN: 9789819522736
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book offers a critical lens on understanding jatra as a historical-cultural performance and reveals its impact...  Read More >>

Urban South Asia: Past, Present and Future

Urban South Asia: Past, Present and Future

Author: Subhadra Mitra Channa
ISBN: 9789819558261
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This book explores the unique trajectory of urbanization in South Asia, from the earliest beginnings of civilization...  Read More >>

Digital Archives of Science: Revisiting the Vestiges of Knowledge-Making

Digital Archives of Science: Revisiting the Vestiges...

Author: Alina Volynskaya
ISBN: 9783119148221
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The archive of science is a place where scientific practices are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of...  Read More >>

Jewish Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Positions

Jewish Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies:...

Author: Sarah M. Ross ,  Tom Kellner
ISBN: 9783111438368
Format: Hardback
$174.21

Seen in the light of Critical Heritage Studies, Jewish cultural heritage is not a natural reality, but a social...  Read More >>

Il bastone: La grande storia delle armi

Il bastone: La grande storia delle armi

Author: Raymond Roman
ISBN: 9798210899415
Format: Paperback
$112.07

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Le nouveau guide culinaire

Le nouveau guide culinaire

Author: François Lavergne
ISBN: 9798210893116
Format: Paperback
$48.02

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A General History of Chinese Wushu, Volume 3: From the Late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, 1900—1949

A General History of Chinese Wushu, Volume 3: From the...

Author: Li Yindong ,  Jiao Dan
ISBN: 9789819580835
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Barhadbeshabba, ›The Cause of the Foundation of Schools‹: Critical Edition with Translation, Introduction and Notes

Barhadbeshabba, ›The Cause of the Foundation of Schools‹:...

Author: Matthias Perkams
ISBN: 9783111444192
Format: Hardback
$311.49

The Cause of the foundation of schools, which has been written around 600 by the East Syriac author Barhadbeshabba,...  Read More >>

Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

Author: David Ganz ,  Thomas Rainer
ISBN: 9783111411071
Format: Hardback
$739.20

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and...  Read More >>

Imperium in Imperio

Imperium in Imperio

Author: Tess Chakkalakal ,  Kenneth W. Warren
ISBN: 9781644533734
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Mineral Waters and Pure Mountain Air: Lesser-Known Health Resorts of Southern Appalachia, 1800-1940

Mineral Waters and Pure Mountain Air: Lesser-Known Health...

Author: Mary F Fanslow
ISBN: 9781476697284
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This work explores the interconnectivity of Southern Appalachia with other regions of the United States through...  Read More >>

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter...

Author: Frank Dikötter
ISBN: 9781526670700
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – a commanding new...  Read More >>

Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop

Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to...

Author: Alex Zamalin
ISBN: 9780807022696
Format: Paperback
$45.00

""A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream...  Read More >>

Fireflies in Winter: A breathtaking novel of survival, hope and the enduring power of love from the author of River Sing Me Home

Fireflies in Winter: A breathtaking novel of survival,...

Author: Eleanor Shearer
ISBN: 9781472291479
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967

Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's...

Author: Elaine Latzman Moon ,  Lester Spence
ISBN: 9780814353042
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The development of the city and its people over these pivotal decades is recounted firsthand in these voices and...  Read More >>

Zen and the Samurai Sword: Japanese warrior techniques for agility, clarity and calm

Zen and the Samurai Sword: Japanese warrior techniques...

Author: Antony Cummins, MA
ISBN: 9781786789686
Format: Paperback
$37.99

This unique book combines Japanese warrior techniques with ancient Zen practices for mental clarity and physical...  Read More >>

Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn

Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William...

Author: Jean R. Soderlund
ISBN: 9781512829204
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware...  Read More >>

Independence Hall in American Memory

Independence Hall in American Memory

Author: Charlene Mires
ISBN: 9781512829211
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""This is a book I have long awaited, one that tells the life of a single building so as to illuminate American...  Read More >>

Il Destino di Tiberio

Il Destino di Tiberio

Author: Maurizio Lauro
ISBN: 9791224321583
Format: Paperback
$63.33

Romanzo storico sull'Impero romano dopo Augusto: Tiberio governa tra sospetto, intrighi e successioni dinastiche,...  Read More >>

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants...

Author: Matthew Perkins-McVey
ISBN: 9780226846132
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during...  Read More >>

The Irish Boundary Commission, 1925: Redrawing the Border

The Irish Boundary Commission, 1925: Redrawing the Border...

Author: Ivan Gibbons
ISBN: 9783032115416
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won't Settlers Listen?

Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia:...

Author: Dan Tout ,  Emma-Jaye Gavin
ISBN: 9783032130785
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and experts from Australia and beyond to...  Read More >>

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