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Living in a Strange World

Living in a Strange World

Author: Caspar Hare (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780192847942
Format: Hardback
$209.59

Living in a Strange World is about what we can learn from metaphysics and cosmology about how to live our lives....  Read More >>

Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek)

Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek)...

Author: John McK. Camp II ,  Eirini Dimitriadou
ISBN: 9780876617137
Format: Paperback
$18.35

Religion permeated all aspects of civic life in ancient Athens, and its material traces are visible throughout the...  Read More >>

Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora: Revised and updated edition

Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora: Revised and updated...

Author: John McK. Camp II
ISBN: 9780876617120
Format: Paperback
$18.35

Religion permeated all aspects of civic life in ancient Athens, and its material traces are visible throughout the...  Read More >>

Theodore Roosevelt in California: The Presidential Adventure That Saved the Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt in California: The Presidential Adventure...

Author: Chris Epting
ISBN: 9781467171120
Format: Paperback
$65.97

""There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country."" --Theodore Roosevelt In 1903, President...  Read More >>

India, Pakistan, and the Sharike-Bazi: An Alternate Understanding of the Cousin Rivalry

India, Pakistan, and the Sharike-Bazi: An Alternate...

Author: Jawar Kadir
ISBN: 9798881904623
Format: Paperback
$139.92

Despite using the metaphors of kin-states and blood-brothers for the India-Pakistan conflict, there is limited work...  Read More >>

Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and Starting Over

Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood,...

Author: Mia Godfrey
ISBN: 9798998913402
Format: Paperback
$42.21

A Powerful Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and HopeAfter losing everything she loved, Mia Godfrey faced a choice:...  Read More >>

Medieval France at War: A Military History of the French Monarchy, 885–1305

Medieval France at War: A Military History of the French...

Author: John France (Professor Emeritus, Swansea University)
ISBN: 9781802704471
Format: Paperback
$118.67

An overarching, comprehensive analysis of the French military in the medieval period, focusing on the armies of...  Read More >>

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability...

Author: Usha Vishnuvajjala
ISBN: 9781802704433
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th...  Read More >>

War Trauma in Medieval Europe

War Trauma in Medieval Europe

Author: Kathryn Hurlock (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781802702590
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This book offers the first detailed analysis of relevant theories of trauma, and their applicability to narratives...  Read More >>

A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages

A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages...

Author: Hannah Skoda (Tutorial Fellow in History, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781802704464
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Examines the ways in which some medieval behaviours and identities were categorized as criminal or deviant, as well...  Read More >>

Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts

Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities...

Author: Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781802704457
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Through a series of cogent case studies, all situated from 1050 to 1250, this book highlights how restrictive and...  Read More >>

Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070–1215

Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka:...

Author: Bruno M. Shirley (Universität Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9781802703092
Format: Hardback
$462.00

This book discusses the proper relationship of gender to power through debates concerning what it meant to be a...  Read More >>

Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts...

Author: Eugene Smelyansky (Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781802704426
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This study explores tropes concerned with the Middle Ages in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to...  Read More >>

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities: Big Data, Scribes, and the “Paris Bible”

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities:...

Author: David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi) ,  Estelle Guéville (Yale University)
ISBN: 9781802702439
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This book explores the intersection of medieval manuscripts and machine learning through the genre of the “Paris...  Read More >>

Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries

Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life...

Author: Wout Saelens (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp)
ISBN: 9789462705067
Format: Paperback
$110.88

A groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first...  Read More >>

Unified Reality Theory: Bridging Science, Philosophy, and Religion to Explain the Nature of Existence

Unified Reality Theory: Bridging Science, Philosophy,...

Author: S Michael Leier
ISBN: 9798295503719
Format: Hardback
$100.29

What if time, causality, and reality itself are not what we assume them to be? Unified Reality Theory proposes...  Read More >>

Situated Marxism: Theoretical Practices in State Socialist Europe

Situated Marxism: Theoretical Practices in State Socialist...

Author: Adela Hincu ,  Stefan Baghiu
ISBN: 9789633868737
Format: Hardback
$331.20

Situated Marxism analyzes theoretical practices in postwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on their own terms...  Read More >>

No Cloistered Life

No Cloistered Life

Author: John McMahon
ISBN: 9781897913994
Format: Paperback
$25.75

A roller coaster memoir charting a course through addiction, recovery and the search for meaning. Readers are taken...  Read More >>

La sanctification: source du bonheur conjugal

La sanctification: source du bonheur conjugal

Author: Alvares Boti
ISBN: 9791098145278
Format: Paperback
$52.80

""Celui qui trouve une femme trouve le bonheur; c'est une grâce qu'il reçoit de l'Éternel."" (Proverbes 18: 22)...  Read More >>

Reproductive Pressure and Royal Couples: Medieval England and Scotland, ca. 1200–1400

Reproductive Pressure and Royal Couples: Medieval England...

Author: Emma Trivett (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781802702125
Format: Hardback
$462.00

This book explores royal couples’ experiences of and responses to fertility problems in the thirteenth and fourteenth...  Read More >>

A Short Guide To World War II Pillboxes in Hong Kong

A Short Guide To World War II Pillboxes in Hong Kong...

Author: Lawrence W C Lai Et Al
ISBN: 9789887164319
Format: Paperback
$42.21

This small book is a descriptive guide for accessing the surviving pillboxes (PBs) in Hong Kong's New Territories...  Read More >>

Imperial and Royal Child Brides in Byzantium and Beyond

Imperial and Royal Child Brides in Byzantium and Beyond...

Author: Cecily Hennessy
ISBN: 9781802702712
Format: Hardback
$320.85

A study of the young girls who married into the royal and imperial households of Byzantium and Europe and who became...  Read More >>

The Road to Recovery: The Lean Years

The Road to Recovery: The Lean Years

Author: John D Cadore
ISBN: 9798893952926
Format: Hardback
$47.49

This book demonstrates perseverance in the face of adversity and how 'good' usually triumphs over evil. It demonstrates...  Read More >>

Wisdom for Life: Collections of Proverbs for Wise Living

Wisdom for Life: Collections of Proverbs for Wise Living...

Author: Jeremiah J E Wierwille
ISBN: 9798218836368
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Drawing on timeless truths from the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom For Life gathers together proverbs on various themes...  Read More >>

Held Through the Storm: Finding Light in the Darkest Days of Grief

Held Through the Storm: Finding Light in the Darkest...

Author: Taiwo Sokan
ISBN: 9798295511172
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Held Through The Storm: Finding Light In The Darkest Days Of Grief is a heartfelt and faith-centered guide for anyone...  Read More >>

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