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Empowered Ladies

Empowered Ladies

Author: Susan Marg
ISBN: 9798891552005
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies

The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies

Author: Colin G. Maggs
ISBN: 9781803996134
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Looking back at the impact of Britain's Big Four railway companies, 100 years later  Read More >>

A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories...

Author: Belinda Black
ISBN: 9781529429688
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A psychiatric nurse recalls her eye-opening experiences at one of Britain's secure mental hospitals during the 1980s....  Read More >>

Returning The Benin Bronzes: A Case Study of the Horniman’s restitution

Returning The Benin Bronzes: A Case Study of the Horniman’s...

Author: Nick Merriman
ISBN: 9783031561009
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November 2022 of the 72 artworks...  Read More >>

Pleasure of Thinking

Pleasure of Thinking

Author: Wang Xiaobo ,  Yan Yan
ISBN: 9780241633267
Format: Paperback
$28.99

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now...  Read More >>

Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective Liberation, and Us All

Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective...

Author: Emma Hakansson (Emma Hakansson)
ISBN: 9781590567241
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Sub-Human delves into what it means to be an animal, how our view of other animals impacts our view of other people,...  Read More >>

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism:...

Author: Amina ElHalawani
ISBN: 9781032728902
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics...  Read More >>

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History...

Author: Nancy A. Nichols
ISBN: 9781639365593
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle...  Read More >>

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How...

Author: Tom Baldwin ,  Marc Stears
ISBN: 9781526646231
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears take on seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading....  Read More >>

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline...

Author: Paul Cooper
ISBN: 9780715655009
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism:...

Author: Amina ElHalawani
ISBN: 9781032560885
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics...  Read More >>

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship...

Author: Magnus Linnarsson ,  Mats Hallenberg
ISBN: 9781032459110
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern,...  Read More >>

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and...

Author: Andrew W. Kahrl
ISBN: 9780226730592
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760939
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

Street Naming and the Politics of Greek-Cypriot Identity: The Case of Nicosia (Lefkosia), 1878–1975

Street Naming and the Politics of Greek-Cypriot Identity:...

Author: Stella Theocharous
ISBN: 9783031544149
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book is the first to explore street names and street-naming in the formation of a Greek-Cypriot identity in...  Read More >>

A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese Traditional Village: Case Study of Zhangdaicun Village

A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese...

Author: Kun Li
ISBN: 9789819969609
Format: Hardback
$343.17

By applying a specific case study in the Hancheng context, Shaanxi Province, which lacks sound studies, the book...  Read More >>

Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Author: Summer Cherland (South Mountain Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032325187
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of Culturally Relevant Teaching, Student-Centered Teaching,...  Read More >>

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering,...

Author: Jörn Happel ,  Melanie Hussinger
ISBN: 9781032479378
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760922
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians in the Kingdom of Naples (1492–1541)

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians...

Author: Nadia Zeldes
ISBN: 9780367536701
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book explores the events that mark the last decades of Jewish presence in the kingdom of Naples from 1492 to...  Read More >>

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions...

Author: Rose Miron
ISBN: 9781517912710
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Who has the right to represent Native history? The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates...  Read More >>

London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings

London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings

Author: Paul Knox
ISBN: 9780300269208
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard...  Read More >>

Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary Era, 1740–1815

Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary...

Author: David Wilock (Wilton High School, USA)
ISBN: 9781032540054
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students, and...  Read More >>

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