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Charms, Charmers and Charming

21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roper, Jonathan

$69.95 21 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Bringing together many scholars of verbal charming, the essays in this title cover magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia.

A Sense of Purpose

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Recollections

By Suzy Eban

$36.40 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Halban Publishers

Abba Eban's widow recalls her rich and varied life with extraordinary recall.

Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Baltic, 1807-12

By Tim Voelcker

$90.00 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Boydell & Brewer Ltd

In the Baltic in 1807-12, Admiral Saumarez played a very skilful diplomatic role, combining firmness and restraint, and working with Sweden, contrary to the instincts of his superiors in London. This book presents a detailed investigation of the key role played by Admiral Saumarez in the continuing naval warfare against Napoleon.

The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System,

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Antti Matikkala

$170.00 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Boydell & Brewer Ltd

A comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign.

Renaissance France at War

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Armies, Culture and Society, C. 1480-1560

By David Potter

$115.00 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Why did the rulers of France attach so much importance to war and did the development of French armies in this period contribute to a significant modernisation of the country's military potential? This title attempts to answer these questions, through an exploration of the strategy of the country's rulers in the light of contemporary writings.

Mary Ward (1585-1645)

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Briefe Relation, with Autobiographical Fragments and a Selection of Letters

By Ward, Mary.

$90.00 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Catholic Record Society

Biography of, and writings by, Mary Ward, one of the most interesting and attractive figures in early modern history who born in Yorkshire during a period of relentless persecution for English Catholics and the founder of the Congregation of Jesus. It contains her earliest biography (c 1650) and other source texts.

Poland's New Capitalism

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jane Hardy

$95.00 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Pluto Press

Poland was central to the historic changes that took place across Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. This book explores the way that neoliberal policies have formed the basis of transformation, championed by both post-communist and post-Solidarity governments. It is suitable for students of political economy and international relations.

Poland's New Capitalism

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jane Hardy

$32.50 20 Nov 2008 Paperback Pluto Press

Letters from the Horn of Africa 1923-1945

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sandy Curle, Soldier and Diplomat Extraordinary

By Christian Curtis

$45.50 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

The Hustyn Chronicle

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$79.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

Written in the early 17th Century, this work represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic history of Ukraine. It describes the history of Kyivan Rus' and Ukraine from biblical times until the Union of Brest in 1596. It is suitable for scholars interested in medieval and early-modern Ukrainian history.

Sutton Hoo and Its Landscape

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Context of Monuments

By Tom Williamson

$40.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Windgather Press

Combining an understanding of local and regional geography, Anglo-Saxon history, and debates about approaches to past landscapes, this book offers an exploration of the context and meaning of an iconic set of monuments.

Taoism, Bureaucracy and Popular Religion in Early Medieval China

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Nickerson

$39.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Asia Center

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao teaching and Chuangtzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. This study focuses on early Taoism's most bureaucratised aspects - its social organisation, healing ritual, and cosmology - and applies its findings to an analysis of Taoism's relationship to popular religious traditions.

The Great Arab Conquests

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in

By Hugh Kennedy

$17.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback The Perseus Books Group

From a leading expert in Arabic history, an engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to Asia

Bittersweet

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century

By Stuart Pearson

$43.59 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Singapore University Press

A story of one Chinese family's life in Indonesia, and of their eventual emigration to Australia. It is suitable for scholars of Indonesia and for students of the Chinese diaspora.

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Fyrth, Sally Alexander

$27.28 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Lawrence and Wishart Ltd

Includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and relief workers as well as celebrated writers. Bringing together extracts from memoirs, letters, diaries and poems, this collection provides an overview of the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of women participants.

Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Debates of the British Communist Historians, 1940-1956

By David Parker

$34.56 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Lawrence and Wishart Ltd

Offers a glimpse into some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm. This book focuses on the debates of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century section of the group and their work on ideology and absolutism.

Whores, Harlots and Wanton Women

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Petrina Brown

$36.40 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sally Crawford

$49.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Greenwood Press

Explores the daily life of ordinary men, women and children of Anglo-Saxon England. This book covers domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, and slavery.

History of Humanity (Vol 7)

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Twentieth Century

By UNESCO

$370.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published in association with UNESCO, this seventh volume explores humankind's cultural and scientific development during the 20th century, covering aspects such as religion, architecture and medicine, as well as looking at the changes that took place within each region of the world. It includes maps and illustrations that complement the text.

The Elastic Closet

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present

By Scott Eric Gunther

$69.95 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Presents a social, legal and political history of gays and lesbians in France since World War Two. This book aims to bridge the gap between the methodologies of legal scholars and of social scientists; using the social history of French homosexuals as a context for investigating the relationship between legal and social change.

Too Few Too Far

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Royal Marines on South Georgia

By Malcolm Angel

$36.40 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Presents the story of the brave 22 Royal Marines, stranded on the frozen island of South Georgia facing a hostile Argentinian invasion force.

Nobel

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Century of Prize Winners

By Michael Worek

$24.95 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Firefly Books Ltd

A look at the achievement of 200 of the most famous, important or interesting Nobel prize winners of the 20th century -- arranged chronologically and illustrated by a portrait and in some cases explanatory diagrams. An appendix lists all winners.

Opposing Hitler

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Adam Von Trott Zu Solz, 1909-1944 - 'To Strive and Not to Yield'

By Kenneth A.E. Sears

$65.00 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

Adam von Trott zu Solz was a boy when Germany was defeated militarily in 1918 and witnessed its economic collapse. He was studying at Oxford University when Hitler came to power in 1933 and was convinced that opposition to the Nazis must come from within Germany and not outside it. This book details the life of a man of brilliant intellect.

Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By James Lindsay

$14.95 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.

Memoirs of a Survivor

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Growing Up in Revolutionary Russia

By Sergei Golytsyn

$34.56 11 Nov 2008 Hardback Reportage Press

The Crisis of Detente in Europe

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From Vietnam to Gorbachev, 1975-1985

By Leopoldo Nuti

$150.00 11 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offers an exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book covers topics such as human rights, the Euromissiles, the CSCE, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and economic growth and its consequences.

What If?

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Counterfactualism and the Problem of History

By Jeremy Black

$18.20 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Social Affairs Unit

Counterfactualism has been strongly dismissed by prominent historians of the Left. This title demonstrates the place of contingency and human agency in history. It argues that the counterfactual approach to history is so hated by some historians because it presents a devastating critique to determinist accounts of past, present and future.

History of Modern Africa

07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Reid

$84.95 07 Nov 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

As the world's second largest continent, Africa is home to a treasure trove of history. This book takes us on a journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond.

Queen Elizabeth II

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ammonite Press

$45.50 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Ammonite Press

Queen Elizabeth II is a highly respected monarch both in the UK and abroad. The Queen has been one of the most photographed women in the world, with strong media interest ever since the days of her childhood as a young princess. This book features pictures that document the life of an extraordinary woman.

From Heaven to Arcadia

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance

By Ingrid D. Rowland

$17.95 06 Nov 2008 Paperback The New York Review of Books, Inc

How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Erik Reinert

$17.95 06 Nov 2008 Paperback The Perseus Books Group

A maverick economist explodes prevailing myths about economic development by arguing that protectionism sometimes makes nations rich and free trade keeps them poor

Nobel

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Century of Prize Winners

By Michael Worek

$39.95 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Firefly Books Ltd

A Disastrous History of the World

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Chronicles of War, Earthquake, Plague and Flood

By John Withington

$36.40 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Piatkus Books

A compulsively readable collection of all the nastiest things that have afflicted mankind

The Crisis of Russian Populism

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Wortman

$29.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Professor Wortman sees populism not as a defined ideology but as a group of shared attitudes and preconceptions.

The United Front

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928

By Daniel F. Calhoun

$55.00 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

The book concerns the Soviet effort during the 1920s.

The Origins of Polish Socialism

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The History and Ideas of the First Polish Socialist Party 1878-1886

By Lucjan Blit

$29.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This is a study of the men and women who pioneered socialist and Marxist ideas among the Poles in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.

The End of the Post-war Era

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Documents on Great-power Relations 1968-1975

By James Mayall, Cornelia Navari

$75.00 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Between the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the singing of the Helinski accords in August 1975, major changes occurred in the condition of the East-West conflict.

Enserfment Russian Peasant

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R.E.F. Smith

$24.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing, at least in law, the process of enserfment of the Russian peasantry.

The Historian and Film

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Smith

$29.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels.

Lest We Forget

05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Forgotten Voices from 1914-1945

By Max Arthur

$14.54 05 Nov 2008 Paperback Ebury Press

Not a Shot Fired

03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The War on Terror in Afghanistan

By Christina Lamb

$36.40 03 Nov 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

The definitive book on Afghanistan, 'Not a Shot Fired' by award-winning journalist, Christina Lamb, is the gripping account of how the West's politicians forgot about this troubled region, the root of the War on Terror, when pursuing their goals in Iraq.

Trauma and the Triumph (v. 2)

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Gender and Partition in the Eastern Region

By Jasodhara Bagchi, Subhoranjan Dasgupta

$63.70 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Bhatkal & Sen,India

Discussing Partition in the Eastern Region, this volume presents a portrait through literature, interviews, surveys and documents. It describes what Partition wrought, the way women dealt with its mindless havoc, how new lives were built, and offers insights on displacement, loss, abduction and rape.

History of the World in Photographs

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$54.58 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Ullmann Publishing

Around 150 detailed texts outline special events and comment on fascinating historical figures. More than 6,000 events are listed altogether. Around another 20,000 images are supplied on an enclosed CD-ROM.

Chateau Gaillard. Etudes de Castellogie Medievale: Actes Du Colloque International de Houffalize (Belgique). 2006

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$65.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brepols Publishers

The Fools' Journey: A Myth of Obsession in Northern Renaissance Art

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pinson, Y.

$152.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback David Brown

This study dedicated to the theme of folly in the northern Renaissance sheds light for the first time on issues that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of the mentalities, as well as the literary and visual manifestations, that characterize the rendering of Folly in the northern Renaissance, particularly in view of the late medieval heritage.

Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims from the Holocaust

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust

By Weiss, Charles

$25.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Enigma Books

A growing number of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First the Swiss banks were accused of silently hoarding countless millions of dollars that belonged to Jews who had perished in Nazi extermination camps. Under pressure the banks agreed to pay up, handing more than one billion dollars to heirs of depositors and to humanitarian causes related to the Holocaust.

German corporations and banks that had profited from hundreds of thousands of slave and forced laborers then came under scrutiny. Germany established a Foundation with up to five billion dollars, for "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future," to settle all claims.

Life insurance policies that were never redeemed because the policyholders and the beneficiaries had simply vanished also came under scrutiny. The response was the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, or ICHEIC as it is known, with the mission of soliciting claims from the public worldwide and paying them off. It ended its work in March 2007, and this is its story.

King's Lynn and the Fens: Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology

By McNeill, John

$68.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Maney Publishing

Collects fourteen papers that explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of King's Lynn and the Fens. This title considers the 14th-century enamelled drinking vessel popularly known as 'King John's Cup', the former Hanseatic 'Steelyard', the Red Mount Chapel, and the oak furnishings of the chapel of St Nicholas.

Yiddish and the Cold War

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Estraikh, Gennady

$89.50 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Legenda

Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. This book recreates the intellectual environments of the Moscow literary journal "Sovetish Heymland", the New York newspaper "Morgn-Frayhayt" and the Warsaw newspaper "Folks-Shtime".

A Life of Contrasts

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Autobiography

By Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, Selina Hastings

$16.36 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Gibson Square Books Ltd

Describes how it came about that both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler adored the author, and Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her.

The Pursuit of Laughter

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Diana Mosley, Deborah (Mitford) Devonshire

$45.50 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Gibson Square Books Ltd

A collection of writings about gossip, politics, war and sexual mores.

Friedrich Ebert

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Germany - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath

By Harry Harmer

$19.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Haus Publishing Limited

Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) was influential in securing SPD support for the war in 1914. He reluctantly accepted the need for Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles, at one point saying he might be prepared to resume the war. This book examines how much of a part treaty played in creating the circumstances of the Second World War.

Woodrow Wilson

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

United States of America - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their

By Brian Morton

$19.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Haus Publishing Limited

Presents the life of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), from his early years during the American Civil War, through his academic and political career and US' involvement in the First World War, to Wilson's role at Versailles, including the construction of his 14 Points, his principles for the reformation of Europe, and the consequences of Versailles.

David Lloyd George

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Great Britain

By Alan Sharp

$19.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Haus Publishing Limited

The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its main negotiator at the peace conference would be its prime minister, the ebullient and enigmatic David Lloyd George, the 'Welsh Wizard'. This study investigates the extent to which Lloyd George succeeded and evaluates the immediate and longer-term results.

Georges Clemenceau

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

France

By David Roin Watson

$19.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Haus Publishing Limited

The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes' misjudged caricature, that he imposed on Germany a treaty that was harsh and unworkable. This biography looks at Clemenceau's background and his place in French politics; his role in the negotiations of the treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Print Publishing in Sixteenth Century Rome

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Witcombe, Clce Witcombe, C. L. C. E.

$211.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback David Brown

This volume brings formal coherence to the overwhelming mass of prints published in sixteenth-century Rome. It is introductory in scope and does not attempt to include every print published by every publisher. The aim is to provide an overview of who was publishing what prints and when over the course of the sixteenth century. The five chapters provide an outline of the history of print publishing while the appendices serve to clarify chronologies and reveal groupings and patterns. A document central to this book deserves some comment. The record of the hearing into the murder of Gerolamo da Modena provided an opportunity to meet a number of the publishers, printers, and engravers at work in Rome in the decades after the mid-century and to understand better their lives, activities, and relationships.

A History of the County of Sussex V.II: Littlehampton and District: Arundel Rape (South-Eastern Part)

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Littlehampton and District - Arundel Rape (south-eastern Part)

By Lewis, C. P.

$180.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Victoria County History

Focuses on 12 parishes with particular emphasis on seaside development from the 18th century onwards.

Plenti and Grase

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Food and Drink in a Sixteenth-century Household

By Mark Dawson

$60.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Prospect Books

Presents a study of the household affairs - as they relate to the consumption of food and drink - of the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and Middleton Hall in Warwickshire. Drawing upon the household accounts, this book describes the patterns of food purchasing, whether from markets and merchants or from the family's own estates.

Three Camels to Smyrna

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Times of War and Peace in Turkey, Persia, India, Afghanistan & Nepal

By Antony Wynn

$45.50 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Hali Publications Ltd

Famous Japanese Swordsmen: Of the Period of Unification

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By De Lange, William

$24.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Floating World Editions

The final volume of the swordsmen trilogy tells the story of the teo greatest warriors of the late-16th century, when war-ravaged Japan was brought under central control

The Vikings in Ireland: Settlement, Trade and Urbanization

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Settlement, Trade and Urbanization

By Valante, Mary

$65.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Four Courts Press

Over the course of two-and-a-half centuries, Viking raiders and their descendants settled in and urbanized Ireland, connecting the Irish with long-distance trade routes as never before. The existence of these new, wealthy port towns benefited the Irish inhabitants of each towns controlled hinterland. At the same time, those living in each towns periphery, outside the immediate hinterlands, could both benefit from trade and find themselves the victims of raids. This~interdisciplinary study balances archaeological and historical evidence, uses geographical and anthropological methods, and assesses primary written sources from the Irish, Scandinavians, Welsh, Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans. By considering especially the economic aspects of the history of the Scandinavian towns in Ireland, this book presents a more accurate picture of the complex relationship between the town-dwelling Scandinavians and the rural Irish than has previously been possible.

Impotent Warriors

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Perspectives of Gulf War Syndrome

By Susie Kilshaw

$90.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Berghahn Books

The Entring Book of Roger Morrice (1677-1691): Complete Set with Index

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Complete Set with Index

By Hawkyard, Aslasdair.

$1250.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Boydell Press

Covers publishing, plays, business, military and religious matters, foreign affairs, public opinion and London life. This work helps readers to trace the transformation of puritanism into Whiggery and Dissent. It also includes an introductory and an index volume as well as a biographical encyclopedia of names.

The Battle of Hastings

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England

By Harriet Harvey Wood

$32.74 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Atlantic Books

The date of the battle of Hastings - 14 October 1066 - is probably the most famous in English history. This book features the world of Harold the King and Duke William.

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bernstein, William J.

$69.99 01 Nov 2008 Non-Book Item Playaway

Traces the evolution of international trade, from ancient Mesopotamia to today's global marketplace, exploring the influence of commerce on agriculture, technology, politics, and civilization as a whole.

God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lewis, David Levering

$69.99 01 Nov 2008 Non-Book Item Playaway

A panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe traces five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe to describe key Islamic cultural contributions and the interplay of cooperation between disparate religions.

Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Johnson, Paul

$64.99 01 Nov 2008 Non-Book Item Playaway

Addresses the subject of heroism as embodied by men and women from a variety of cultures and historic periods, profiling such diverse subjects as Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, and Pope John Paul II.

German Saints at War

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Freeman, Robert

$29.99 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Cedar Fort

The Greatest Speeches of All Time

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Various

$12.95 01 Nov 2008 Compact Disk Phoenix Audio

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ferguson, Niall

$29.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Penguin Press

Niall Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress.

Africa in Twentieth Century Black Atlantic Discourse

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Babacar M'Baye

$49.99 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Twentieth-century Black literary and political figures of the United States and the Caribbean related to Africa in complex and ambivalent ways that did not prevent them from denouncing the social, economic, and political oppressions of the West against Blacks of Africa and its Diaspora from slavery through colonialism and neocolonialism.

A Companion to the Medieval World

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lansing, Carol

$174.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Sowti Squad

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Raymond John Kane

$14.54 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Trawl Services Limited

Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dooling, Wayne

$26.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Ohio University Press

"Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa" examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899.

Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, 2-Volume Set

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jamie Stokes

$175.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Facts on File

History Strikes Back

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How States, Nations, and Conflicts are Shaping the 21st Century

By Vedrine Hubert

$22.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brookings Institution

Offers an overview of world politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This title shows why Westerners need to discard the illusions that have guided their international relations for more than twenty years. It presents a realistic vision for building a better world and spells out what Europeans expect from the US administration to come.

Venetians in Constantinople

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean

By Eric R. Dursteler

$25.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

Moving beyond the 'clash of civilizations' model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, the author focuses on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Matthew Mulcahy

$25.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

Hurricanes created unique challenges for colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements.

The Economy of Renaissance Florence

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Goldthwaite, Richard A.

$55.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Clarifies and explains the complex workings of Florence's commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. This book focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors.

The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sloan, Dolores

$45.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback McFarland & Company

This work traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post-Columbian diaspora. It highlights achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, economy and government, alongside a few less noble accomplishments, in both the land they left behind and in the lands that they settled later. Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail, and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history.

Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Beliefs and Practices

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edson, Gary

$95.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback McFarland & Company

The ancient practice of shamanism touches many cultures and spiritual philosophies. This book provides an in-depth look at the beliefs and practices centered on the shaman, a person believed to have powers to heal and communicate with the spirit world. It explores shamanism and its associated myths, artifacts, and legends as a communally endorsed acknowledgment of the supernatural or spirit world that evolved in the Neolithic Period and continues to appeal to modern seekers. The work is heavily illustrated, featuring more than 90 of the author's drawings of masks, fetishes, carvings and ongon, and 40 rare photographs of shamans, medicine men and women and healers.

The Palace the Palace

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hinds, Kathryn

$34.21 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Marshall Cavendish Children's Books

Ignorance is Blitz

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Mangled Moments of History from Actual College Students

By Anders Henriksson

$6.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Workman Publishing

Compiled by a Professor from the term papers and blue book exams of students, this work presents extracts ranging from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, 'If I Had a Hammer'.

Islam's War Against the Crusaders

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By W.B. Bartlett

$34.56 01 Nov 2008 Hardback The History Press Ltd

The Titanic Story

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hutchings, David

$19.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback History Press

When the White Star Line's 'unsinkable' transatlantic liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage on 15 April 1912, she sank with the loss of 1,503 lives. From that fateful day when she plumbed the icy depths of the North Atlantic, Titanic has become the most celebrated of maritime disasters.

Heroes, Rascals and Rogues

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$32.74 01 Nov 2008 Hardback AA Publishing

An illustrated guide, featuring photos and memorabilia of people who have made their mark on history. It includes entries on various individuals, with boxes and biographies about competitors or co-conspirators.

In the Shadows of Giants

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kevin Johnston

$36.38 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, at the height of the industrial revolution, the city of Belfast was its shipyards. A city whose rise to wealth had been founded first on linen, reached its apogee in shipbuilding. This title tells the story of Harland and Wolff, Workman Clark and the other Belfast yards.

The "Irish Times" Book of the Year

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Murtagh

$40.02 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Suitable for those who wish to recover highlights of the year 2008 as recorded in Ireland's quality leading newspaper.

Bandit Territories: British Outlaws and Their Traditions

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

British Outlaws and Their Traditions

By Philips, Helen

$85.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback University of Wales Press

Offers research and critical interpretations about British outlaw traditions and the way they have been imagined and presented in both the Middle Ages and the centuries since. This volume focuses on the ways in which rogue-heroes have been used by literature, film, and other areas of popular culture and imagination.

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ficino, Marsilio

$29.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on "beauty in all its forms" and a sublime work of theology. This title explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.

Enserfment Russian Peasant

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Smith, R. E. F.

$24.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing, at least in law, the process of enserfment of the Russian peasantry.

Modernism : the lure of heresy

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gay, Peter.

$21.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback W W Norton

Gay's ambitious endeavor looks at the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, Gay traces the revolutionary path from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement. Illustrated.

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rhodes, Richard

$15.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Vintage Books USA

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.
In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history--its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.

James May's Magnificent Machines: How Men in Sheds Have Changed Our Lives

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How Men in Sheds Have Changed Our Lives

By May, James

$15.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton

James May's idiosyncratic look at the great inventions of our time

Rabies

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kumar, Ponon Dileep Kumar, P. Dileep

$45.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Greenwood Press

A short history and examination of rabies, once one of the most feared diseases among humans and one that continues to ravage developing nations today.

ADHD

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hammerness, Paul Graves

$45.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Greenwood Press

Cultural Exchanges in Early Modern London

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ward, Joseph P.

$69.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

Joseph P. Ward explores the connections between early modern London and the world beyond the metropolis, surveying several of these spheres in a series of chapter-length, topical analyses. Each chapter addresses the recent approaches of historians and literary critics, encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue.

The Toothpick: Technology and Culture

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Petroski, Henry

$15.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Vintage Books USA

Like "The Pencil," Petroskis "The Toothpick" is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book.

The Hell Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

By Lord, Evelyn

$32.50 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Yale University Press

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, and extensive libraries of erotica became more sensational as generations passed. This book brings to light an portrait of their membership, beliefs, activities, and the reasons for their proliferation.

Guardians of Islam: Religious Authority and Muslim Communities of Late Medieval Spain

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Religious Authority and Muslim Communities of Late Medieval Spain

By Miller, Kathryn

$45.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Columbia University Press

Muslim enclaves within non-Islamic politics are commonly believed to have been beleaguered communities undergoing relentless cultural and religious decline. Cut off from the Islamic world, these Muslim groups, it is assumed, passively yielded to political, social, and economic forces of assimilation and acculturation before finally accepting Christian dogma.

Kathryn A. Miller radically reconceptualizes what she calls the exclave experience of medieval Muslim minorities. By focusing on the legal scholars (faqihs) of fifteenth-century Aragonese Muslim communities and translating little-known and newly discovered texts, she unearths a sustained effort to connect with Muslim coreligionists and preserve practice and belief in the face of Christian influences. Devoted to securing and disseminating Islamic knowledge, these local authorities intervened in Christian courts on behalf of Muslims, provided Arabic translations, and taught and advised other Muslims. Miller follows the activities of the faqihs, their dialogue with Islamic authorities in nearby Muslim politics, their engagement with islamic texts, and their pursuit of traditional ideals of faith. She demonstrates that these local scholars played a critical role as cultural mediators, creating scholarly networks and communal solidarity despite living in an environment dominated by Christianity.