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Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

Author: Kat Hill
ISBN: 9780008619022
Format: Hardback
$39.99

‘The bothy embrace is addictive’ ADAM NICOLSON 'Will have you reaching for your...  Read More >>

The Routledge History of Happiness

The Routledge History of Happiness

Author: Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, Australia) ,  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032323190
Format: Hardback
$431.00

Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore...  Read More >>

The Media of Secular Music in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (1100–1650)

The Media of Secular Music in the Medieval and Early...

Author: Vincenzo Borghetti ,  Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos
ISBN: 9781032047836
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing...  Read More >>

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid...

Author: Elena Poniatowska ,  Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
ISBN: 9783031111792
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9780008681753
Format: Hardback
$59.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings...  Read More >>

Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China

Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China

Author: Yuan Yang
ISBN: 9781526655899
Format: Hardback
$44.99

'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE 'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for...  Read More >>

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean...

Author: Alex Christofi
ISBN: 9781399401883
Format: Hardback
$42.99

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.  Read More >>

The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy...

Author: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472857736
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to...  Read More >>

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do...

Author: Beth Ashley
ISBN: 9780241675236
Format: Hardback
$37.99

From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming,...  Read More >>

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Author: Gareth Harney
ISBN: 9781847927507
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary...  Read More >>

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won...

Author: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529398519
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission...  Read More >>

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Author: Caroline Magennis
ISBN: 9781837730650
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Harpy is a measured, compassionate and truly compelling read. I've been waiting to read a book like this for such...  Read More >>

The History Lessons

The History Lessons

Author: Shalina Patel
ISBN: 9781837731619
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Taking the reader on a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval...  Read More >>

Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation...

Author: Wen Liu
ISBN: 9780252087905
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss

All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation,...

Author: Dena Rueb Romero
ISBN: 9781647426545
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Forbidden by Nazi racial purity laws to marry his beloved in Germany and forced to emigrate to America to escape...  Read More >>

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories...

Author: Sarah Blacker ,  Emily Brownell
ISBN: 9781531506636
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and...

Author: Belinda Edmondson
ISBN: 9780198914648
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas...

Author: William M. Fowler Jr., Recipient of the 2023 Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achie ,  Anne Grimes Rand
ISBN: 9781493077885
Format: Paperback
$50.99

In a full and energetic life, Silas Talbot went to sea, fought in the Revolutionary War, speculated in western lands,...  Read More >>

Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785

Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris:...

Author: Jeffrey Merrick (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
ISBN: 9780271097114
Format: Hardback
$271.00

An English translation of recorded depositions by men arrested for sodomy or pederasty in eighteenth-century Paris,...  Read More >>

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern...

Author: Carsten Meiner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Katrine Helene Andersen
ISBN: 9781032526737
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing...  Read More >>

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The...

Author: Spencer Sunshine (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9780367190606
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, based on years of archival work and interviews, documents for the...  Read More >>

Bring mir bloß keinen Deutschen nach Hause!: Familiengeschichten deutsch-französischer Paare der Nachkriegszeit (1945-1963)

Bring mir bloß keinen Deutschen nach Hause!: Familiengeschichten...

Author: Sylvie Méron-Minuth ,  Christian Minuth
ISBN: 9783658441760
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Dieses Buch erzählt faszinierende Geschichten von deutsch-französischen Familien in der Nachkriegszeit in einer...  Read More >>

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A...

Author: Uzi Rabi ,  Mira Tzoreff
ISBN: 9781032398273
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Focused on three Egyptian revolutions – in 1919, 1952, and 2011 – this edited book argues that each of these revolutions...  Read More >>

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