History: Specific Topics
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Thirsty Scholars
Empire Publications (UK)£10.95| /The 'On Top of the World' Project is a community programme run by Anne Finnegan and Tina Cribbin who work with older people in tower blocks in Hulm...
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This Wild Spirit
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble ov...
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Three Revolutions -- Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£70.00| /Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in U...
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Three Revolutions -- Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£70.00| /The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 20132...
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Through the Mackenzie Basin
University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /When Through the Mackenzie Basin was published in 1908, it became an immediate success as an adventure book on the unsettled regions of Northwest C...
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Till the Boys Come Home
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...
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Time Travel in North Vancouver
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£30.99| /A fascinating pictorial history of North Vancouver city and district in British Columbia, covering over 90 locations scattered around the length an...
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TimeLine
Americas Group Publications (US)£10.99| /Illustrates and briefly describes the crucial moments in the life of Leonardo da Vinci -- including his family background, education, travels, inve...
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To America & Around the World
Branden Publishing Co (US)£19.99| /This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown...
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To Survive Sobibor
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /Dov Freiberg was only twelve when he was hurled into the crushing events of the German occupation of Poland. His father was killed by German soldie...
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Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
Schiffer£31.99| /Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delive...
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Tooth and Veil
Massey University PressOriginal price £41.99Current price £38.99| /In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...
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Town Life
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In the prairies, the small town rests comfortably in our memories as a setting of childhood innocence, good neighbours and stability. By following ...
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Traductores del exilio. argentinos en editoriales españolas
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£28.99| /Este libro puede leerse como una contribución a la historia cultural del exilio argentino en España y como un estudio sobre las prácticas de traduc...
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Tragedy and Triumph
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoi...
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Transatlantic Style/Stile Transatlantico
Coachbuilt Press£102.99| /What precisely is Transatlantic Style in automobile design and why is it important to identify and celebrate it? The term is symbolic of a very i...
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Translating Late Ottoman Modernity in Palestine
V & R Unipress GmbHOriginal price £72.99Current price £71.99| /The study examines local debates about political order, collective identity, and relationships between ethnic and denominational groups in the pre-...
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Trawniki Guards
Schiffer Military£27.99| /This is a study of some of the rank-and-file men, the foot soldiers, who carried out the "Final Solution." The Trawniki concentration camp in Polan...
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Treatise on Slavery
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...
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Treatise on Slavery
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...
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Trendyville
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued the...
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Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Rich in stories, the Crowsnest Pass region in the southern Rocky Mountains still bears evidence of its tragedies, and one monumental triumph--a rai...
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Troublesome Country
Progressive Press (US)£14.99| /This is a forceful statement of what is right about America -- as well as a history of where we've gone wrong. Our principles are the best the worl...
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True Tales of the American Southwest
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /Compiled here are the recollections of some remarkable men and women who experienced frontier life in the American Southwest during the latter part...
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Truth & Nothing But the Truth
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /In this, the author's twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelson's orig...
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Tuskegee Airmen
Branden Publishing Co (US)£40.99| /Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with comp...
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Two Flags
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /The Warsaw ghetto uprising was planned and accomplished by two organisations, the ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa -- Jewish Fighting Organization)...
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Two Witnesses' Testimony. Long Lost Manuscripts from 1938
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /The sports journalist Maximilian Reich was arrested on March 17, 1938 in Vienna and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau with the so-called Tra...
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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£25.99| /Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...
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Ukraines Decentralization
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Ukraines 20132014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as The Euromaidan, which literally means European Square and refers to the country...
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Umbrellas in Bloom
Blacksmith Books (HK)£12.99| /This book puts Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the glo...
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Under Swiss Protection
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /This volume retraces Carl Lutzs diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Togethe...
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Unearthly Landscapes
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...
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Union & Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...
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Unmasking ISIS
Progressive Press (US)£13.99| /ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...
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Unredeemed Past
Ariadne Press (US)£27.99| /This book gives voice to experiences by Austrian and Austrian Jewish women during World War II and the Holocaust through a social and historical re...
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Up from the Underworld
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...
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Urban Maori
Oratia Books£30.99| /The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...
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Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /For some time the Commission Internationale pour lHistoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...
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USS Missouri (BB-63)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...
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USS North Carolina (BB-55)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...
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Victims & Executioners
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...
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Videotape Your Memoirs
Quill Driver Books (US)£13.99| /Every one of us has a story to tell, yet writing is often such a daunting task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs -- let a...
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Violence in Between
Monash University Publishing£31.99| /A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...
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Voice Called
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...
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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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