History Books
The University of Chicago Press Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and
Book SynopsisFrom colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race.Trade Review"Michael O'Malley's new book is a magnificent piece of scholarship on a topic that is at once timely and surprising. He shows our twin national obsessions - money and race - dancing together across economic policy reports, the pages of literary fiction, the stage, the screen, and the airwaves. I recommend this book wholeheartedly." (Benjamin Reiss, Emory University)"
£25.65
McFarland & Company The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at Gettysburg
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The University of Chicago Press The Political Language of Islam Exxon Lecture
Book SynopsisDiscuss the Islamic Scriptures that form the basis for its political language, looks at the changes in modern Islamic politics, and analyzes the transformation of political terms.
£14.00
The University of Chicago Press Torture and the Law of Proof Europe and England
Book SynopsisExplores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, this crisply written book provides an account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture.
£24.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Tudor Executions
Book SynopsisThe Tudors as a dynasty executed many people, both high and low. But the nobility were the ones consistently involved in treason, either deliberately or unconsciously. Exploring the long sixteenth century under each of the Tudor monarchs gives a sense of how and why so many were executed for what was considered the worst possible crime and how the definition of treason changed over the period. This book examines how and why Tudor nobles like Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham; Queen Consort Anne Boleyn; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, fell into the trap of treason and ended up on the block under the executioner's axe. Treason and the Tudor nobility seem to go hand in hand as, by the end of the sixteenth century and the advent of the Stuart dynasty, no dukes remained in England. How did this happen and why?
£19.80
Reaktion Books The English Table
Book SynopsisA mouth-watering glimpse into the flavours that shaped English culinary heritage.
£16.16
University of Wales Press The Trials of Edward Vaughan
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Harvard University Press The Ancient Shore
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Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. Medieval Horizons
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Oxford University Press Life in the Viking Great Army
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The University of Chicago Press Muslims in Spain 1500 to 1614
Book SynopsisOn December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuseor justification, as its leaders saw thingsto embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presencefrom Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval SpainL. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in aljamiado Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, Muslims in Spain, 150
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The University of Chicago Press Sophocles I Antigone Oedipus the King Oedipus at
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£12.00
The University of Chicago Press Picturing America
Book SynopsisInstructive, amusing, colorful pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of whimsy and fact, combining cartographic elements with text and images and featuring bold and arresting designs, bright and cheerful colors, and lively detail. In the United States, the art form flourished during the 1920s to the 1970s, when thousands of innovative maps were mass-produced for use as advertisements and decorative objects the golden age of American pictorial maps. Picturing America is the first book to showcase this vivid and popular genre of maps. Geographer and collector Stephen J. Hornsby gathers together 158 delightful pictorial jewels, most drawn from the extensive collections of the Library of Congress. In his informative introduction, Hornsby outlines the development of the cartographic form, identifies several representative artists, describes the process of creating a pictorial map, and considers the significance of the form in the history of Western cartography. Organized into six thematic sections, Picturing America covers a vast swath of the pictorial map tradition during its golden age, ranging from Maps to Amuse to Maps for War. Hornsby has unearthed the most fascinating and visually striking maps the United States has to offer: Disney cartoon maps, college campus maps, kooky state tourism ads, WWII promotional posters, and many more. This remarkable, charming volume's glorious full -color pictorial maps will be irresistible to any map-lover or armchair traveler.
£37.05
Verso Books Disputing Disaster
Book SynopsisIn A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who unlike any other scholar on the Grear War was himself a leading actor in pitching his country into it; Paul W. Schroeder, the American expert on the system of European interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914; Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus in Britain about the country’s role in the outbreak of the fighting; and, from Australia (a dominion dragooned into the Great War by the British), Christopher Clark, acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring. A Sextet on the Great War is a compelling analytical
£25.50
University of British Columbia Press Shifting Gears
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Ebury Publishing The Science of Discworld II
Book SynopsisIan Stewart (Author) Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society.Terry Pratchett (Author) Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any. www.terrypratchettbooks.comJack Cohen (Author) Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist, and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring them to colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for science fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs. Jack, who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here, writes, lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.Trade ReviewSuperb, neatly fulfilling its goal of introducing science without being boring or didactic. This is a genuinely mind-expanding and very funny book. * Good Book Guide *Entertaining, instructive and illuminating * New Scientist *
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The University of Chicago Press Savage Energies Lessons of Myth and Ritual in
Book SynopsisUncovers deep connections between the strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops.
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The University of Chicago Press Building the Devils Empire
Book SynopsisPresents the history of New Orleans' early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. This book presents an account of New Orleans' wild youth. It features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers.Trade Review"A penetrating study of the colony's founding." - Nation "A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing together archival research, archaeology, and literary analysis." - Laurent Dubois, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press Ties That Bound Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Book SynopsisBehind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation's capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all slaveholders. And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in Ties That Bound, these women, as the day to day managers of their households, dealt with the realities of a slaveholding culture directly and continuously, even in the most intimate of spaces.Unlike other histories that treat the stories of the First Ladies' slaves as somehow separate from the lives of their mistresses, as if slavery should be relegated to its own sphere or chapter, Ties That Bound closely examines the relationships that developed between the First Ladies and their slaves. For elite women and their families, slaves were more
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The University of Chicago Press Slaughterhouse
Book SynopsisFrom the minute it opened-on Christmas Day in 1865-it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. Dominic A. Pacyga is a guide like no other-he grew up in the shadow of the stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and maintains a long-standing connection with the working-class neighborhoods around them. Pacyga takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods and controlled the livelihoods of thousands of families. He looks at the Union Stock Yard's political and economic power and its sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor relations. And he traces its decades of mechanized innovations, which introduced millions of consumers across the country to an industrialized food system. Although the Union Stock Yard closed in 1971, the story doesn't end there. Pacyga takes readers to present day, showing how the manufacturing spirit lives on. Ironically, today the site of the legendary stockyard stench is now home to some of Chicago's most successful green agriculture companies. Marking the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the stockyards, Slaughterhouse is an engrossing story of one of the most important-and deadliest-square miles in American history.
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization
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The University of Chicago Press How to Do It Guides to Good Living for
Book SynopsisThis work shows 16th-century Italy from an alternative perspective: through advice manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians just trying to lead a better life.
£21.85
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC All She Lost
Book Synopsis''Poignant and compelling'' - Lindsey Hilsum''Essential and urgent'' - Kim GhattasLebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon''s unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the devastating blast occurred and was one of the first journalists to report on it. She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation''s collapse, who remembers Beirut''s glory days of the 1960s. Their personal st
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The University of Chicago Press Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in
Book SynopsisProvides a definitive history of consumer activism. This title explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, and emerging contemporary movements like slow food.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Two Arabs a Berber and a Jew
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Wordwell Boyne and Beyond: Essays in appreciation of
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Oxford University Press Oxford IB Diploma Programme Rights and Protest
Book SynopsisDrive critical, engaged learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting the new 2015 syllabus, the structured format helps you easily progress through the new course content.Table of Contents1. Case study 1: Apartheid South Africa (1948-1964) ; 1.1 Introduction to apartheid in South Africa ; 1.2 The nature and characteristics of discrimination ; 1.3 Protests and action ; 1.4 The role and significance of key individuals ; 2. Case Study 2: Civil Rights Movement in the United States (1954-1965) ; 2.1 Introduction to discrimination in the United States ; 2.2 Freedom Summer, 1964 ; 3. Internal Assessment ; 4. C
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Trine Day Barry The Boys
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Oxford University Press Oxford IB Diploma Programme The Cold War
Book SynopsisDrive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative approach to learning.Cover the new syllabus in the right level of depth, with rich, thorough subject contentDeveloped directly with the IB, with the most comprehensive support for the new syllabus with complete support for the comparative approachTruly engage learners with topical, relevant material that convincingly connects learning with the modern, global worldStreamline your planning, with a clear and thorough structure helping you logically progress through the syllabusBuild the advanced-level skills learners need for Paper 2, with the student-led approach driving active skills development and strengthening exam performanceIntegrate approaches to learning with ATLs like thinking, communication, research and social skills built directly into learningHelp learners think critically about improving performance with extensive examiner insight and samples based on the latest exam formatBuild an advanced level, thematic understanding with fully integrated Global Contexts, Key Concepts and TOK Also available as an Online Course BookTable of Contents1. Growth and tension - the origins of the Cold War 1943-1949 ; 1.1 The formation of the grand alliance to 1943 ; 1.2 The wartime conferences 1943-1945 ; 1.3 The emergence of superpower rivalry in Europe 1945-1949 ; 1.4 Cold War crisis in Europe ; 1.5 The atom bomb ; 1.6 The roles of the USA and the Soviet Union in the origins of the Cold War ; 1.7 Case Study 1: Yugoslavia under Tito ; 2. Global spread of the Cold War 1945-1962 ; 2.1 Emergence of superpower rivalry in Asia 1945-1949 ; 2.2 Communist success in China and its relations with the USSR and the USA 1946-1949 ; 2.3 North Korean invasion of South Korea 1950 ; 2.4 Origins of the Non-Aligned Movement ; 2.5 old War crisis in Europe - the Hungarian uprising ; 2.6 The Suez Crisis ; 2.7 Congo Crisis 1960-1964 ; 2.85 Berlin Crisis and the Berlin Wall ; 2.9 Sino-Soviet tensions, the Taiwan Strait crises and the split ; 2.10 Cuban Missile Crisis ; 2.11 Case Study 2: Guatemala during the Cold War ; 3. Reconciliation and renewed conflict 1963-1979 ; 3.1 The invasion of Czechoslovakia ; 3.2 Arms race and detente ; 3.3 Sino-US agreements ; 3.4 The election, presidency and overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile ; 3.5 Cold War crisis in Asia Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 ; 3.6 Case Study 3: Vietnam ; 4. The end of the Cold War ; 4.1 Eastern European dissent ; 4.2 Cold War crisis: The Able Archer crisis 1983 ; 4.3 Gorbachev's policies ; 4.4 The effect of Gorbachev's policies on Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War ; 4.5 The end of the USSR 1989-1991
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Reaktion Books Myths Muses and Mortals
Book SynopsisA lyrical introduction to a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece.
£21.25
Allen & Unwin Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisA lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.
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Penguin Books Ltd Chernobyl Roulette
Book SynopsisA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARWhat if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women's Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage.
£20.00
The History Press Ltd Flint Tools Field Guide
Book SynopsisOur prehistoric ancestors used flint tools every day; they were of vital importance for cutting and scraping, used for hunting, preparing food, making clothing and building shelters, and their remnants are scattered around the countryside.Unearthing such a find is a magical moment a direct link to events thousands of years before but how do you identify the piece of flint you find out in the field? Is it only a lump of flint, or did it really have an important function as a tool prized by our ancestors? And how old is it, exactly?In Flint Tools Field Guide, archaeologist and flint knapper Robert Turner opens a window into prehistoric archaeology, using hand-drawn illustrations and photographs to explain how to identify tools and their uses, as well as approximate their age. This is an important insight into how people lived and worked so many years ago.
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Little, Brown & Company Operation Nemesis
Book SynopsisIn 1921, a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named their operation Nemesis after the Greek goddess of retribution. Over several years, the men tracked down and assassinated former Turkish leaders. The story of this secret operation has never been fully told until now.Eric Bogosian goes beyond simply telling the story of this cadre of Armenian assassins to set the killings in context by providing a summation of the Ottoman and Armenian history as well as the history of the genocide itself. Casting fresh light on one of the great crimes of the twentieth century and one of history''s most remarkable acts of political retribution, and drawing upon years of new research across multiple continents, OPERATION NEMESIS is both a riveting read and a profound examination of evil, revenge and the costs of violence.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Rising
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Little, Brown & Company Hammerhead Six
Book SynopsisTwo years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan''s notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, the Hammerhead Six mission applied the principles of unconventional warfare to win hearts and minds and fight against the terrorist insurgency. In 2003, the Special Forces soldiers entered an area later called the most dangerous place in Afghanistan. Here, where the line between civilians and armed zealots was indistinct, they illustrated the Afghan proverb: I destroy my enemy by making him my friend. Fry recounts how they were seen as welcome guests rather than invaders. Soon after their deployment ended, the Pech Valley reverted to turmoil. Their success was never replicated. Hammerhead Six finally reveals how cultural respect, hard work (and the occasional machine-gun burst) were more than a match for the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
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University of Texas Press Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
Book SynopsisCompiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior''s paradise and in the virtue of sacrifice.This volume contains an exact transcription of the thirty-six Nahuatl song texts, accompanied by authoritative English translations. Bierhorst includes all the numerals (which give interpretive clues) in the Nahuatl texts and also differentiates the text from scribal glosses. His translations are thoroughly annotated to help readers understand the imagery and allusions in the texts. The volume also includes a helpful introductTable of Contents Preface A Note on Orthography Using the Online Edition Introduction On the Translation of Aztec Poetry Guide to the Vocabulary Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España/Ballads of the Lords of New Spain Guide to the Transcription The Text in Nahuatl and in English Part 1 [I] 1. Friends, let us sing [II] 2. "I'm coming, I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers" [III] 3. Again they make music [IV] 4. God Self Maker's home is nowhere [V] 5. Friends, listen to this [VI] 6. "I come to guard the city" [VII] 7. The flower lords, the song bells [VIII] 8. Chalco's come to fight [IX] 9. Let's drink [X] 10. For a moment God's drums come forth [XI] 11. May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green [XII] 12. The flower trees are whirling [XIII] 13. In this flower house [XIV] 14. Princes, I've been hearing good songs Part 2 [XV] 1. Now let us begin [XVI] 2. A master of egrets makes these flowers move [XVII] 3. On this flower mat you paint your songs [XVIII] 4. Are You obliging? [XIX] 5. I'm born in vain [XX] 6. I strike up a song [XXI] 7. I stand up the drum [XXII] 8. Your flowers blossom as bracelets [XXIII] 9. My heart is greatly wanting flowers [XXIV] 10. Let there be comrades [XXV] 11. Strike it up beautifully [XXVI] 12. Eagle flowers, broad leafy ones, are sprouting [XXVII] 13. A shield-roaring blaze-smoke rises up [XXVIII] 14. Flowers are our only adornment Part 3 [XXIX] 1. [. . .] [XXIX-A] 1-A. You paint with flowers, with songs [XXX] 2. Your flowers are jade [XXXI] 3. Come forth and play our drum [XXXII] 4. In the house of pictures Part 4 [XXXIII] 1. Begin in beauty [XXXIV] 2. Like flowers [XXXV] 3. "Never with shields" [XXXVI] 4. Jade, turquoise: your chalk, [your] plumes Commentary Concordance to Proper Nouns Verbs, Particles, and Common Nouns Appendix I: Two Versions of the Myth of the Origin of Music Appendix II: Corrections for the Cantares Edition Bibliography Index
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MU - University of Texas Press Black Space
Book SynopsisAnalyzing many of the most popular and influential science fiction films of the past five decades, this book presents the most comprehensive work to date on how race and “blackness” are imagined in science fiction film.Trade Review"Black Space stands as fresh, insightful work that fills an obvious and significant gap in the critical and theoretical discussion of the African American absence/presence (along with the broader issues of race and difference) in science fiction cinema. Besides the occasional anthology essay or journal article, I can think of no work by a single author that presents such sustained, 'cover to cover' discussion of this vital and underexplored area in black representation." Ed Guerrero, New York University, author of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film and Do the Right ThingTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Structured Absence and Token Presence Chapter 2. Bad Blood: Fear of Racial Contamination Chapter 3. The Black Body: Figures of Distortion Chapter 4. Humans Unite! Race, Class, and Postindustrial Aliens Chapter 5. White Narratives, Black Allegories Chapter 6. Subverting the Genre: The Mothership Connection Notes Bibliography Index
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The History Press Ltd The Little History of England
Book SynopsisWhat did the Romans do for us?Did King Arthur really exist?Who was Bloody Mary?Why did Great Britain go to war with Napoleon?Formed out of a union of warring Germanic kingdoms in the tenth century ad, England rose to become the most powerful nation in the world and the operations room of an empire spanning a quarter of the world's land surface.The Little History of England tells the great story of English history as simply as possible. This fast-paced and comprehensive narrative takes the reader on a journey from the beginning of the world to the present day. Historian Jonathan McGovern brings an insider's perspective into play, explaining the real significance behind the tumultuous history of this remarkable country.
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University of Texas Press Diodorus Siculus The Persian Wars to the Fall of
Book SynopsisBy one of the foremost historians and translators in the field of Classics, Peter Green—an authoritative, modern translation of a long-neglected historian whose work covers the most vital century in ancient Greek history.Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction Diodorus Siculus: The Bibliothêkê Book 11: 480-451 BCE Book 12: 450-415 BCE Book 13: 415-405 BCE Book 14.1-34: 404-401 BCE Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press No Mexicans Women or Dogs Allowed
Book SynopsisThe first fully comprehensive study of the origins of the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) and its precursors, incorporating race, class, gender, and citizenship to create bold new understandings of a pivotal period of activism.Trade Review"A refreshing and pathbreaking view of the roots of Mexican American social movement organizing in Texas with new insights on the struggles of women to participate and define their roles in this social movement." Devon Pena, University of WashingtonTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Society and Ideology 1. The Mexican Colony of South Texas 2. Ideological Origins of the Movement Part Two: Politics 3. Rise of a Movement 4. Founding Fathers 5. The Harlingen Convention of 1927: No Mexicans Allowed 6. LULAC's Founding Part Three: Theory and Methodology 7. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement 8. No Women Allowed? Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Egypt of the Pharaohs
Book SynopsisThe mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the wonderland of the Pharaohs, have always held the world in awe. Now available in new covers, this volume provides a comprehensive history of this fascinating land from its earliest days to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. Gardiner presents background on Egyptian language, the writing, the land, its neighbors, and resources, with a special section devoted to the Egyptian method of determining chronological dates. He then follows with a concise history of Egypt from the time of the Old Kingdom, through the Ramesside period, up to the last days of Egyptian independence around 323 B.C. Authoritative andmeticulously researched, Egypt of the Pharaohs is an enticing introduction to the study of this ancient civilization.Trade Review"A magnificent book."--New Statesman "Outstanding, both for the meticulous scholarship for which the author is renowned among Egyptologists and for the humanity and understanding with which he approaches this subject."--Times Literary Supplement "Presented with an authority which cannot be surpassed...with notable frankness, and with a detached enthusiasm...which reflect the long life of a scholar whose vocation has at the same time been his hobby."--The Spectator "A 'must' for students of Egyptian history."--John W. Betlyon, University of North Florida
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University of Washington Press The Drunken Mans Talk
Book SynopsisThis collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century. Tales of romantic loveincluding courtship, marriage, and illicit affairsunify the collection and make it an essential primary source for literary and social history, since official Chinese history sources did not usually discuss family conflict or sexual matters. This volume, the first complete translation of The Drunken Man's Talk (Xinbian zuiweng tanlu) in any language, includes an introduction that explores the literary significance of the work as well as annotations explaining the symbolism and allusions found in the stories.Trade Review"This translation of Zuiweng tanlu deserves a larger audience beyond that of sinologists." -- Jacques Pimpaneau * T’oung Pao *"Inglis’s rendition of The Drunken Man’s Talk is a pleasant and enlightening read and highly recommended to anyone interested in medieval Chinese short stories." -- Xiao Rao, Standford University * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"a valuable contribution to the field of classical Chinese tales and may also be enjoyed by lay readers." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"Discovered in 1940 in a private library in Japan, this long-lost The Drunken Man’s Talk (Xinbian zuiweng tanlu新編醉翁談錄) attracts readers’ attention primarily for two reasons: (1) its initial chap-ter offers a valuable introduction to professional storytelling, and (2) it is a rich collection in Classical Chinese that covers short stories from the Six Dynasties (420–581) to the Southern Song (1127–1279). Through Alister D. Inglis’s exquisite translation, English readers can enjoy these amazing stories today... [I]t provides readers with a full picture of a collection of anecdotal fiction (biji xiaoshuo筆記小說) in middle-period China." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator’s Introduction 1. An Account of the Plowmen of the Tongue 2. A Legal Case Involving Illicit Love 3. Romantic Union 4. Women’s Verse 5. Humorous Tales from a Precious Window 6. Veritable Records from the Red-light District 7. Records from the Red-light District 8. Humorous Quips 9. The Characteristics of Ladies 10. Poems About Ladies 11. Romantic Union 12. Extraordinary Encounters with Immortals 13. Virtuous Women of the Inner Quarters 14. Legal Cases Involving Witty Verdicts 15. Felicitous Trysts with Immortals 16. Broken Promises 17. Romantic Betrayal 18. Extraordinary and Predestined Meetings 19. Old Stories of Reunion 1 20. Old Stories of Reunion 2 Appendix Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography
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University of Washington Press Body Spirit
Book SynopsisFocuses on a set of contemporary paintings in the traditional technique by the Nepalese artist Romio Shrestha and his assistants in Kathmandu.Trade Review"Body and Spirit will not only be of great use to teachers and students of Asian studies and global medical history but will also give much pleasure to anyone interested in Asian Art." * Medical History *"…a beautifully produced catalogue…Body and Spirit makes available all seventy-nine paintings, giving a well translated short summary on each of them and an English rendering of all medical terms, drawing on the original seventeenth-century descriptions. Gyatso's erudite introduction adds greatly to the value of the book for academic and general readers alike…. Body and Spirit will not only be of great use to teachers and students of Asian studies and global medical history but will also give much pleasure to anyone interested in Asian art." * Medical History *"This new rendering of the subject has the distinct advantage of being affordable and accessible for a wider audience, including students. The subject is eclectic, and the curious-from medical professionals to scholars of art, culture, and religion-will benefit from exploring this new treatment." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Map of Tibet Introduction / Janet Gyatso Medical Paintings Glossary Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Union Army 186165 2
Book SynopsisThis book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Eastern and New England states that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. During 186165, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to defend the Union during five long years of bitter conflict. This volume, the second in a three-part study, chronicles the clothing, insignia and gear worn by the soldiers fielded by 12 of the states that fought to preserve the Union.While uniforms conforming to standard Union Army patterns were widely issued to these troops, some wore distinctive items of dress or insignia, and a wide variety of weapons were carried. Ron Field, an acknowledged authority on US military apparel, reveals how the Eastern and New England states clothed and equipped their regiments during the Civil War. Eight plates of original artwork showing officers and enlisted men of the Union Army are com
£11.69
Little, Brown & Company The Soul of a New Machine
Book SynopsisTracy Kidder's 'riveting' (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. 'Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work.' --Wall Street Journal
£16.99
Oxford University Press Inc Restless Giant
Book SynopsisJames Patterson''s Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life and by The Wall Street Journal as a tour de force. Now, in the final chronological volume of this acclaimed series, Patterson again offers an authoritative and vibrant history of a turbulent period in American life. Restless Giant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era''s many memorable figures--most notably, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton--and explore the culture wars where liberals and conservatives, including a resurgent Religious Right, appeared to cut the country in two. Indeed, Reagan helped to usher in a widespread conservative Trade Review"Jim Patterson has done it again! Restless Giantis a worthy successor to his prize-winning Grand Expectations. Patterson writes with flair, an admirable sense of balance, and complete command of his sources. He covers the full gamut of American life; politics, economics, international affairs, race, sex, and the culture wars all get their due. Anyone wishing to understand modern America would do well to begin with this book."--Michael J. Klarman, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
£18.89
Simon & Schuster The Crazies
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