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John Wiley & Sons From the Hands of a Weaver Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stems. This book presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsula's Native peoples and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft.
£24.13
John Wiley & Sons Borrowed Soldiers
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war's end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.
£20.56
John Wiley & Sons Raza Schools Volume 4
In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so - against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation - is the story Jesus Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools.
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America 1792
In 1792, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from San Blas, Mexico, to Nootka Sound, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island. This book offers the first published English translation of Bodega’s journal, a remarkable account of his travels along the Northwest Coast of America.
£22.34
John Wiley & Sons Peoples of the Plateau The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse 18981915
£44.03
John Wiley & Sons War Party in Blue Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglected episodes.
£22.34
John Wiley & Sons Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans Indigenous Education in the EighteenthCentury Atlantic World
£31.29
John Wiley & Sons Volunteers on the Veld Britains CitizenSoldiers and the South African War 18991902
Focuses on the connection between Britain's auxiliary forces - volunteers, militia, and yeomanry - and its imperial mission during the late Victorian era, looking especially at why the British war effort came to depend on their performance.
£31.29
John Wiley & Sons Eros at the Banquet Reviewing Greek with Platos Symposium
After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatus. In contrast, this intermediate-level textbook reinforces the first-year lessons and enables students to read Plato's Symposium, one of the most engaging works in Attic Greek.
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons The Conquest of Mexico
In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates.
£46.46
John Wiley & Sons Architects of Empire
A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage.
£28.40
John Wiley & Sons Inkpaduta Dakota Leader
Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains. But the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all the Sioux leaders. Paul Beck now challenges a century and a half of bias to reassess the life and legacy of this important Dakota leader.
£20.56
John Wiley & Sons Malinche Pocahontas and Sacagawea
The first Europeans to arrive in North America relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time.
£22.34
John Wiley & Sons After Custer Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn, the US army responded by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In this study, Paul Hedren examines the war's effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.
£20.56
John Wiley & Sons Writing the Range
A collection of 29 essays that presents women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West. It locates women in a framework that connects gender, race and class. Among the women covered are Spanish-Mexican settlers and Chinese, Basque, Japanese and Koreans.
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons A Military History of the Cold War 19441962
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War.
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration
Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. For years Long's expeditions have been overlooked or misunderstood. Here for the first time they are placed in the context of American scientific development.
£20.56
John Wiley & Sons Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain
The Treatise of Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n is one of the most important surviving documents of early colonial Mexico. It was written in 1629 as an aid to Roman Catholic churchmen in their efforts to root out the vestiges of pre-Columbian Aztec religious beliefs and practices. For the student of Aztec religion and culture it is a valuable source of i
£34.85
John Wiley & Sons Archaeology History and Custers Last Battle
Using innovative and standard archaeological analyses of bullets and cartridges, eyewitness accounts and other primary sources, the battle at Little Big Horn is reappraised. The author argues the end came amid terror and disarray with no determined fighting and little firearm resistance.
£22.34
John Wiley & Sons Seeking Justice for the Holocaust Herbert C. Pell Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Limits of International Law
With its broad new examination of the background and context of the Nuremberg trials, and its expanded view of the roles played by Roosevelt and his unlikely deputy Pell, Seeking Justice for the Holocaust offers a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how the Allies came to hold Nazis accountable for their crimes against humanity.
£24.13
John Wiley & Sons Muhammad Islams First Great General
That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier. Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam's first great general. While there have been numerous accounts of Muhammad the Prophet, this is the first militar
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians.
£20.56
John Wiley & Sons The Athlete in the Ancient Greek World
In the world of sports, the most important component is the athlete. After all, without athletes there would be no sports. In ancient Greece, athletes were public figures, idolized and envied. This fascinating book draws on a broad range of ancient sources to explore the development of athletes in Greece from the archaic period to the Roman Empire.
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons The Royal American Regiment An Atlantic Microcosm 17551772
In the wake of Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the French and Indian War. As Alexander Campbell shows, the inclusion of foreign mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British volunteers made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world.
£24.13
John Wiley & Sons A Military History of the Cold War 19441962
Offers a comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon, and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
£38.43
John Wiley & Sons Pocahontass People
Spanning four centuries, this history traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Spanish missionaries in 1750, through to their present-day way of life and relationship with the state of Virginia and the Federal Government.
£24.13
John Wiley & Sons International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds
£26.81
John Wiley & Sons Euripides Alcestis
£24.13
John Wiley & Sons Jane Austens Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
A revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.
£18.51
John Wiley & Sons Why Dissent Matters
An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Its a Working Mans Town Male WorkingClass Culture Second Edition
In a valuable addition to the debate on the nature of contemporary working-class culture, Thomas Dunk shows that the function and meaning of gender, ethnicity, popular leisure activities, and common-sense knowledge are intimately linked with the way an individual's experience is structured by class.
£26.29
John Wiley & Sons Liberating Temporariness
An in-depth and wide-ranging critique and analysis of the rising tide of temporariness in political and social life.
£28.73
John Wiley & Sons Essentials of Management and Leadership in Public Health
£136.05
John Wiley & Sons EVOS EMS Vehicle Operator Safety Includes eBook with Interactive Tools
£27.70
John Wiley & Sons Structured Finance Modeling with ObjectOriented VBA
A detailed look at how object-oriented VBA should be used to model complex financial structures This guide helps readers overcome the difficult task of modeling complex financial structures and bridges the gap between professional C++/Java programmers writing production models and front-office analysts building Excel spreadsheet models.
£34.26
John Wiley & Sons Japanese For Dummies Audio Set
Want to speak Japanese? Don't have a lot of time? Japanese For Dummies Audio Set is designed to help you learn quickly and easily at home or on the road. From basic greetings and expressions to grammar and conversations, you'll grasp the essentials and start communicating right away.
£12.00
John Wiley & Sons Worldwise 201douard Roditis Twentieth Century
£80.60
John Wiley & Sons Lordship and State Transformation Bohemia and the Habsburg FiscalFinancialMilitary Regime 16501710
£117.53
£26.29
John Wiley & Sons Friendship and the Novel
Friendship enables plots about rivalry, education, compassion, pity, deceit, betrayal, animosity, and breakup. It crosses boundaries of gender, class, nationality, disposition, race, age, and experience. The essays in Friendship and the Novel illustrate that friendship, in its many forms, is a central problem and abiding mystery in fiction.
£80.60
John Wiley & Sons Seapower in the Postmodern World
£80.60
John Wiley & Sons Cigarette Nation
Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful.
£31.98
John Wiley & Sons Regards sur lâme en NouvelleFrance
£31.98
John Wiley & Sons Becoming Green Gables The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse
£19.80
John Wiley & Sons Laboratory of Modernity
Laboratory of Modernity is a history of Ukraine during the long nineteenth century, providing a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. In this first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Serhiy Bilenky traces the historical origins of some of the pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.
£35.21
John Wiley & Sons Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections
£26.29
John Wiley & Sons Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium
Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, film contexts, and key developments since 2000.
£108.15
John Wiley & Sons D.H. Lawrence and Attachment
Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.
£94.38
