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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' - STEPHEN FRY

Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite...

Author: Rebecca Struthers
ISBN: 9781529339048
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A 40,000-year global journey through the history of time from an extraordinary watchmaker and historian  Read More >>

World War I: The Definitive Visual History

World War I: The Definitive Visual History

Author: DK
ISBN: 9780241605417
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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Of Kerns and Gallowglasses: Irish Armies of the 16th Century 1487-1587

Of Kerns and Gallowglasses: Irish Armies of the 16th...

Author: Robert Gresh
ISBN: 9781804513545
Format: Paperback
$75.00

The first of a series of two books for the Retinue to Regiment series covering Irish armies of the Tudor era, this...  Read More >>

Work: The Last 1,000 Years

Work: The Last 1,000 Years

Author: Andrea Komlosy ,  Jacob Watson
ISBN: 9781786634139
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed...

Author: Richard Charles Cobb
ISBN: 9781399019439
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Using 21st century profiling techniques, it’s time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack...  Read More >>

rmy of Transylvania (1613-1690): War and Military Organization from the 'Golden Age' of the Principality to the Habsburg Conquest

rmy of Transylvania (1613-1690): War and Military Organization...

Author: Florin Nicolae Ardelean
ISBN: 9781804513491
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The army of the Transylvanian Principality represented a mixture of Western European and Oriental (Ottoman) military...  Read More >>

Great French Revolution, 1789-93

Great French Revolution, 1789-93

Author: Peter Kropotkin
ISBN: 9780921689393
Format: Hardback
$142.53

With an Introduction by George Woodcock. Kropotkin saw the French Revolution as a climax in a long past and future...  Read More >>

Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the Great Rivalry with Spain

Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the Great...

Author: Emrah Safa Gürkan ,  Jonathan M. Ross
ISBN: 9781647124410
Format: Hardback
$63.99

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact...  Read More >>

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French...

Author: Anne Higonnet (Barnard College)
ISBN: 9780393867954
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of...  Read More >>

Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History: Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest

Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary...

Author: Stefan Berger ,  Christian Koller
ISBN: 9783031528187
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book delves into the synergies between memory studies and social movements, exploring how social movements...  Read More >>

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II...

Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
ISBN: 9781682477243
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their...  Read More >>

We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison

We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad...

Author: Tracy Daugherty
ISBN: 9780806193717
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Tells the story of two larger-than-life figures - George Harrison met Muhammad Ali - at a momentous time. A unique...  Read More >>

The Foundations of Modern Arms Control: An International History, 1815-1968

The Foundations of Modern Arms Control: An International...

Author: Robert M. Blum
ISBN: 9781032719245
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument...  Read More >>

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories...

Author: Sarah Blacker ,  Emily Brownell
ISBN: 9781531506629
Format: Hardback
$227.99

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history....  Read More >>

Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937...

Author: David Brandenberger
ISBN: 9781503637863
Format: Hardback
$154.99

At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on...  Read More >>

The Nation-Free Recipe: How the Triple Entente served Comintern

The Nation-Free Recipe: How the Triple Entente served...

Author: Saimir A. Lolja
ISBN: 9781649797346
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Readers who finished the acclaimed 2018 first edition swiftly dove into a second reading. Why the page-turning intrigue?...  Read More >>

Perestroika and the Soviet People

Perestroika and the Soviet People

Author: David Mandel
ISBN: 9781895431148
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The economic and political situation of a society attempting to be re-born is the subject of this work. With a chronological...  Read More >>

Common Cents: Media Portrayal of the Gulf War and Other Events

Common Cents: Media Portrayal of the Gulf War and Other...

Author: James P. Winter
ISBN: 9781895431247
Format: Paperback
$63.33

"Objectivity is the theme of these five case studies which deal with how the media covered the Gulf War, the Oka...  Read More >>

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians...

Author: Wayne Kalayjian
ISBN: 9781639365869
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse,...  Read More >>

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern...

Author: Kathryn Hughes
ISBN: 9780008365103
Format: Hardback
$52.99

'Remarkable' Literary Review 'Startlingly original' Amanda Foreman Some called...  Read More >>

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