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Epic Fails in Ancient History: Uncovering Hilarious Mistakes and Baffling Blunders That Shaped Civilizations

Epic Fails in Ancient History: Uncovering Hilarious...

Author: Ahoy Publications
ISBN: 9798892960564
Format: Hardback
$71.25

Take an epic journey through the hilarious mistakes and baffling blunders that shaped civilizations.  Read More >>

Earth History: Our Legacy

Earth History: Our Legacy

Author: Azhar Ul Haque Sario
ISBN: 9798224811441
Format: Paperback
$44.85

"""Earth History: Our Legacy"" isn't just about the past; it's about right now. It's about realizing that this incredible,...  Read More >>

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew...

Author: Naomi Seidman
ISBN: 9781503639263
Format: Paperback
$68.99

"There is an academic cottage industry on the ""Jewish Freud,"" aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his...  Read More >>

Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450

Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450

Author: Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici
ISBN: 9781837652075
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.  Read More >>

Khawateen-e-Islam: (Essays on great women from Islam)

Khawateen-e-Islam: (Essays on great women from Islam)...

Author: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
ISBN: 9789358724523
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Islam's past is replete with outstanding feats accomplished by remarkable women. The lives of a few of these prominent...  Read More >>

Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity

Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity

Author: Róisín Ryan-Flood (University of Essex, UK) ,  Amy Tooth Murphy (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032499048
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer...  Read More >>

The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology

The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern,...

Author: Jenny Pelletier ,  Christian Rode
ISBN: 9783031239861
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social...  Read More >>

To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater

To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation...

Author: Mary B. Robinson
ISBN: 9781032580913
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington...  Read More >>

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan...

Author: Aviad Moreno
ISBN: 9780253069665
Format: Hardback
$174.99

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Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew...

Author: Naomi Seidman
ISBN: 9781503638563
Format: Hardback
$287.99

"There is an academic cottage industry on the ""Jewish Freud,"" aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his...  Read More >>

Women and the American Experience: A Concise History

Women and the American Experience: A Concise History...

Author: Nancy Woloch
ISBN: 9781032284897
Format: Paperback
$73.99

The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s...  Read More >>

James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s Heir, 1566–1603

James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s...

Author: Alexander Courtney
ISBN: 9781138606265
Format: Paperback
$75.99

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new...  Read More >>

Berengaria of Navarre: Queen of England, Lord of Le Mans

Berengaria of Navarre: Queen of England, Lord of Le...

Author: Gabrielle Storey
ISBN: 9781032121475
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Berengaria of Navarre was Queen of England (1191-99) and Lord of Le Mans (1204-30). This book explores her political...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Author: Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Professor Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781350440692
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While...

Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
ISBN: 9780861548095
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Shakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?  Read More >>

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278698
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad

The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad

Author: J. P. Daughton
ISBN: 9781803996967
Format: Paperback
$42.99

The gruesome history of the Congo–Océan Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa  Read More >>

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din...

Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
ISBN: 9781408715598
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world  Read More >>

Shaka and Shalom: More Jewish Contributions to Hawaii

Shaka and Shalom: More Jewish Contributions to Hawaii...

Author: Mathew R Sgan
ISBN: 9798369418055
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This book continues to trace the beneficial crosscurrent's that Jewish people brought to Hawaii arrival beginning...  Read More >>

Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971

Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary...

Author: Rachel Hynson
ISBN: 9781316640500
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government...  Read More >>

Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear...

Author: Julie McDowall
ISBN: 9781529920017
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in...  Read More >>

Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really)...

Author: Christopher B. Patterson ,  Tara Fickle
ISBN: 9781478026037
Format: Hardback
$303.47

The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America,...  Read More >>

The Concrete Utopia: Looking Backward into the Future of Human Rights

The Concrete Utopia: Looking Backward into the Future...

Author: Wolfgang Kaleck
ISBN: 9781682194393
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Concrete Utopia  conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a “backward-looking”...  Read More >>

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