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A History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959

A History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959...

Author: Kawal Deep Kour
ISBN: 9789388540254
Format: Hardback
$144.87

National politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discourse of opium in...  Read More >>

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of...

Author: Guy de la Bedoyere
ISBN: 9780300284942
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire  Read More >>

Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities...

Author: Wendell Marsh
ISBN: 9780231210713
Format: Paperback
$61.95

The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial...  Read More >>

Disruptive Scientists in the Shadows

Disruptive Scientists in the Shadows

Author: Mario D Garrett, PH D
ISBN: 9798274296076
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Many academics have attempted to understand what science is. From Aristotle, who distinguished between ""know how""...  Read More >>

Reshef: El Dios de la Flecha, entre la Plaga y la Protección

Reshef: El Dios de la Flecha, entre la Plaga y la Protección...

Author: Manuel Rodsua ,  Cristina Lobo
ISBN: 9798274289740
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Descubre la fascinante odisea de un dios olvidado que se negó a morir.¿Puede un dios transformarse en demonio y...  Read More >>

In the Garden of Memory

In the Garden of Memory

Author: Joanna Olczak-Ronikier ,  Antonia Lloyd-Jones
ISBN: 9781953943705
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Winner of the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland's...  Read More >>

Apocalypse of the Modern Mind: Covid and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Reset or Renaissance: Volume 2

Apocalypse of the Modern Mind: Covid and the Dialectic...

Author: Daniel J Polikoff
ISBN: 9781938685637
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Apocalypse of the Modern Mind is the second volume of Daniel Polikoff's groundbreaking Reset or Renaissance series....  Read More >>

Reign and Ruin

Reign and Ruin

Author: Jay Quin
ISBN: 9798224884650
Format: Paperback
$47.49

A crown won in love is tested in fire. Abigail Remington has triumphed where others failed; capturing the heart...  Read More >>

The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare

The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed...

Author: Eram Alam
ISBN: 9781421452784
Format: Paperback
$153.00

Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965? For more than 60 years, the...  Read More >>

Yun Dong-ju: A Critical Biography

Yun Dong-ju: A Critical Biography

Author: Song WooHye ,  Flora M. Kim
ISBN: 9781978841680
Format: Paperback
$69.30

Historian and novelist Song WooHye chronicles the life of Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), one of the most beloved and important...  Read More >>

Vecinos Distantes: Un Retrato de Los Mexicanos / Distant Neighbors

Vecinos Distantes: Un Retrato de Los Mexicanos / Distant...

Author: Alan Riding ,  Jorge Castañeda Gutman
ISBN: 9786076390528
Format: Paperback
$65.87

«La nueva polémica entre México y Estados Unidos es prácticamente idéntica a la narrada por el autor de Vecinos...  Read More >>

Operación Kazán (Novela) / Operation Kazan (a Novel)

Operación Kazán (Novela) / Operation Kazan (a Novel)...

Author: Vicente Vallés
ISBN: 9786073935968
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Una novela llena de intriga que, desde una perspectiva muy original, plantea un asunto de ficcióoacute;n que bien...  Read More >>

The Decipherment of Linear A: Crete, Egypt and the End of the Minoan Empire

The Decipherment of Linear A: Crete, Egypt and the End...

Author: Mark Cook
ISBN: 9781036134631
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Linear A is a Middle and Late Bronze Age script principally used on Crete. Dated to 1800 - 1450 BC, it was discovered...  Read More >>

Elizabeth I's Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids: The Women who Served the Tudor Queen

Elizabeth I's Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids: The Women...

Author: Heather Shanette
ISBN: 9781399094610
Format: Hardback
$80.00

'What do you think of my ladies?' Queen Elizabeth I is said to have asked a visitor to her court. The visitor, an...  Read More >>

Shaping a Nation: A History of Women as Educators and Education Influencers

Shaping a Nation: A History of Women as Educators and...

Author: Gaynor Haliday
ISBN: 9781399032155
Format: Hardback
$69.99

It was in 1869 that Bradford MP Edward Miall who, standing alongside that champion of Elementary Education, William...  Read More >>

The Capture of Caen: The Fall of the City, June–July 1944

The Capture of Caen: The Fall of the City, June–July...

Author: Tim Saunders
ISBN: 9781036150402
Format: Hardback
$80.00

With the German reinforcement of Normandy in April 1944, the chance of I Corps capturing Caen on D Day or shortly...  Read More >>

Female Smugglers of the 19th Century

Female Smugglers of the 19th Century

Author: Dee Gordon
ISBN: 9781036115197
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Writing Female Smugglers of the Nineteenth Century has proved quite a challenge, but a fascinating one. This was...  Read More >>

Letters from the Burma Front: Dear Annie & Flo

Letters from the Burma Front: Dear Annie & Flo

Author: Kate Venables
ISBN: 9781036101886
Format: Hardback
$69.99

The Burma campaign against the Japanese in the Second World War involved rebuilding a defeated multi-ethnic, multi-lingual...  Read More >>

A History of Alcoholic Spirits: How Our Favourite Tipples Changed The World

A History of Alcoholic Spirits: How Our Favourite Tipples...

Author: Jamie Ryder
ISBN: 9781036122058
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Did you know rum was once the spirit of America? How about tequila being the fuel of a revolution that changed Mexico...  Read More >>

Sisters of Influence: A Biography of Zina, Amy, and Rose Fay

Sisters of Influence: A Biography of Zina, Amy, and...

Author: Andrea Friederici Ross
ISBN: 9780809339785
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Three sisters who forged intertwined paths to empowerment A real-life Little Women, Sisters of Influence is the...  Read More >>

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama...

Author: Joan Flores-Villalobos
ISBN: 9781512828757
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible,...  Read More >>

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing...

Author: Katharine Gerbner
ISBN: 9781478032403
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Katharine Gerbner traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize...  Read More >>

Russian Literary Journals, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy in St. Petersburg, 1877

Russian Literary Journals, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy in...

Author: Linda M. Mayhew
ISBN: 9781469691381
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In 1877, the atmosphere in Russia was highly contentious. Amid war with the Ottoman Empire, the nation was also...  Read More >>

Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities...

Author: Jaimee A. Swift ,  TD Tso
ISBN: 9798888903728
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. envisions...  Read More >>

The History of Fashion: The Evolution of Fashion from Ancient Egypt to Modern Style

The History of Fashion: The Evolution of Fashion from...

Author: Henry Veldar
ISBN: 9798275719727
Format: Paperback
$47.44

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