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Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: the Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo, DuLarge: Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: the Bowie Brothers...

Author: Christopher Everette Cenac ,  Carl A. Brasseaux
ISBN: 9780989759427
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A lushly illustrated, exhaustively researched history of the famed Bowie brothers and Bayou DuLarge  Read More >>

Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis

Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew...

Author: Philip D. W. Krey ,  Ian Christopher Levy
ISBN: 9781580447102
Format: Hardback
$221.76

This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's...  Read More >>

Culture, Nature, and Environmental Sustainability: An Anthropological Introduction

Culture, Nature, and Environmental Sustainability: An...

Author: Luis A. Vivanco (University of Vermont, USA) ,  Keri Vacanti Brondo (Columbia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781119886754
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Bridges culture, nature, and sustainability through an anthropological lens on global environmental challenges Environmental...  Read More >>

The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026

The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026...

Author: Callum Cant ,  Matthew Lee
ISBN: 9781836742616
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A fresh, accessible history of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary – telling a story of working-class community...  Read More >>

The Register Of Thomas Hatfield, Bishop Of Durham, 1345-1381

The Register Of Thomas Hatfield, Bishop Of Durham, 1345-1381...

Author: Richard K. Richard K. Rose
ISBN: 9780854440863
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The full record of diocesan administration under Bishop Hatfield. This edition completes the publication of the...  Read More >>

Sermons from the Early Restoration Years  (Volume 20)

Sermons from the Early Restoration Years (Volume 20)...

Author: John Owen ,  Martyn C. Cowan
ISBN: 9781433560491
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Volume 20 of The Complete Works of John Owen includes several brief sermons on the power of the gospel, the Lord...  Read More >>

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian ""Harvard Miracle""

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the...

Author: Andrii Portnov
ISBN: 9780674304222
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual...  Read More >>

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century...

Author: Carlo Ginzburg (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies and Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Ital, UCLA) ,  John Tedeschi
ISBN: 9781421454634
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Menocchio's 500-year-old challenge to authority remains evocative and vital today.  Read More >>

All-Star Quilts of Valor, 2nd Edition: 37 Patriotic Patterns from Star Designers

All-Star Quilts of Valor, 2nd Edition: 37 Patriotic...

Author: Quilts of Valor Foundation
ISBN: 9780764371356
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An updated, expanded volume of inspiring quilt patterns from an organization dedicated to honoring US military veterans—including...  Read More >>

Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of State-Socialist Built Heritage

Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives...

Author: Maja Babić (Assistant Professor, University of Groningen) ,  Tino Mager (Associate Professor, University of Groningen)
ISBN: 9789462705050
Format: Paperback
$100.32

The architectural heritage of socialist modernism and conservation in former Eastern Bloc countries. Contentious...  Read More >>

Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies

Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies...

Author: Brianne Donaldson (University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9781032659978
Format: Paperback
$119.00

Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting...  Read More >>

Sport in Victorian Dublin

Sport in Victorian Dublin

Author: Julien Clénet
ISBN: 9781803743684
Format: Paperback
$160.91

This book maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in Victorian Dublin. It highlights how social class,...  Read More >>

Composers’ Unions and Cultural Policy in State Socialist Countries in the 1950s and 1960s

Composers’ Unions and Cultural Policy in State Socialist...

Author: Rüdiger Ritter ,  Lenka Křupková
ISBN: 9783631915387
Format: Hardback
$240.11

This book explores the role of composers' unions in state socialist Central and Eastern Europe, tracing how they...  Read More >>

Kava's Magical Roots

Kava's Magical Roots

Author: Steven E Leszyk
ISBN: 9798295545641
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History

The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History...

Author: Daniel Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780228026549
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture...  Read More >>

Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972

Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972...

Author: Alex Mendoza
ISBN: 9780806196541
Format: Hardback
$104.00

The first comprehensive record of Tejanos in war, Mendoza's account documents the forces and circumstances that...  Read More >>

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...

Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781399514446
Format: Hardback
$219.00

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Spinoza and the Rise of Systems: Reception and Critique in the French Enlightenment

Spinoza and the Rise of Systems: Reception and Critique...

Author: Diego Donna ,  Brent Waterhouse
ISBN: 9781399542098
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Studies the modern and contemporary French reception of Spinoza's philosophy.  Read More >>

The Constitution of the Roman Republic (287-133 BC): A Mixed Polity

The Constitution of the Roman Republic (287-133 BC):...

Author: Antonios Emmanuel Platsas
ISBN: 9781399545822
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Explores the characteristics of the Roman Republic's constitution between 287-133 BC.  Read More >>

Closing the Ring: George Washington’s War in the North, 1778–1781

Closing the Ring: George Washington’s War in the North,...

Author: Jeffrey A Denman
ISBN: 9781636245089
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A new account of Washington at his best, in a northern theater that has previously been overlooked.  Read More >>

Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity: Essays in Religion

Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity: Essays...

Author: David Frankfurter (Professor of Religion and Aurelio Chair in the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University)
ISBN: 9781399526784
Format: Hardback
$299.00

A definitive collection of work by the leading expert on the material powers, collective fantasies and ritual expressions...  Read More >>

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