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Persian Revolution 1905-1909, 2nd Edition
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£33.50| /An essential volume for anyone attempting to understand Persia's past and present, this new edition features an introduction by Abbas Amanat, Brown...
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Persian Sphinx
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.00| /Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitan...
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Personal Groupings, Award Documents, and Ephemera of Rommel's Afrikakorps:
Schiffer Military£54.99| /For German military document collectors this volume has a treasure trove of rare Afrikakorps related award documents, propaganda leaflets, Soldbuch...
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Philip Melanchthon
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£104.99| /These twelve essays by international scholars investigate Melanchthons theological activities as teacher, confessor of the faith, and defender of ...
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Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£84.99| /This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- a great philologist, pedagogue, and theologian of the Reforma...
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Philip Timms' Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£40.99| /In Philip Timms' Vancouver, the city's "golden age" has been captured with spirit and style by one of British Columbia's foremost photographers. Ph...
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Philistine Iconography
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /The Philistines were migrants from the Aegean and Cyprus who changed during the 12th century BC. settled on the south coast of Palestine / Israel. ...
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Phoney Wars
Otago University Press£27.95| /This book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a politi...
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Pioneer Canadian Actors
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /It seems that so many of today's Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are th...
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Pirates on the Chesapeake
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£20.99| /A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government...
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Plain of Dead Cities
Cune Press (US)£35.99| /Three years of war. One hundred-fifty thousand dead. One million refugees. No end in sight. This is the grim reality of the conflict in Syria, one ...
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Plain of Dead Cities
Cune Press (US)£20.99| /Three years of war. One hundred-fifty thousand dead. One million refugees. No end in sight. This is the grim reality of the conflict in Syria, one ...
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Plains Indians Regalia and Customs, 2nd Ed.
Schiffer£45.99| /This original study of Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century is presented through the use of period writings, paintings, and early photography...
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Planning Co-Existence
CCI Press£42.99| /For centuries Canada's Aboriginal peoples have sought to enter into treaties of peace and friendship with colonial settlers based on the principles...
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Planning for Balanced Development
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /Community planner Susan Guyette presents the first field-tested model of development planning that addresses the special concerns of Native America...
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Plumes from Paradise
Sydney University Press£33.99| /The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, ...
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Poetical Inspiration in Old Norse & Old English
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£4.00| /The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies delivered at University College London, 28 November 1997.
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Poetry, Politics and Promises of Empire
V & R Unipress GmbH£76.99| /The present interdisciplinary study examines the poetic as well as the political staging of the Palatinate Wedding of 1613 in London in the occasio...
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Polar Bears
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and huntin...
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Poles
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /Among the EU states in Eastern and Northern Europe, Poland is the most populous one. In terms of its economic forté and financial balance sheet, it...
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Policing Hong Kong An Irish History
Blacksmith Books (HK)£14.99| /Hong Kong, 1918. A tranquil place compared to war-torn Europe. But on the morning of the 22 January, a running battle through the streets of Wanch...
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Polish War Veterans in Alberta
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by war and the Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Ca...
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£29.95| /The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it w...
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Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1980
CIUS Press£34.99| /Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1980 is perhaps the most authoritative English-language work on this period yet to appear. Based on me...
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Polynesian Navigation & the Discovery of New Zealand
Oratia Books£23.99| /The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he an...
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Popular Art and the Avant-garde
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...
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Popular is Not Enough: The Political Voice of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist thro...
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Postal Propaganda of the Third Reich
Schiffer Military£27.99| /Nearly sixty years after the end of World War II the Third Reich continues to fascinate both authors and readers. Nazi propaganda, in particular, h...
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Potlatch People
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£20.99| /This title is complimentary to Hancock House's first Mildred Valley Thornton book released in 2000, Buffalo People: Portraits of a Vanishing Nation...
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Pots for the Living / Pots for the Dead
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /Pots for the Living / Pots for the Dead
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Prairie Murders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the bruta...
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Precarity
Massey University PressOriginal price £30.99Current price £26.99| /Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making. The precariat are our fellow citizens be they poor, eld...
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Present Age
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /The Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isol...
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Presidential Studies Reader
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£39.99| /This book offers contemporary research and study by presidential scholars published in journals dedicated to the study of the presidency. The essay...
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Prison Diary of A C Barrington
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /A C (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War II. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he k...
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Private & Royal Life in the Ottoman Palace
Blue Dome Press (US)£9.99| /Topkapi Palace was the official and primary residence of the Ottoman sultans for almost four centuries of their 624-year reign. This illustrated gu...
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Private und dienstliche Schriften
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£123.99| /The name of the Prussian army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755-1813) is firmly connected with the introduction of general conscription. He wa...
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Privateers of the Revolution
Schiffer Military£31.99| /A revelatory narrative of the 538 Pennsylvania and New Jersey privateers, privately owned ships of war some called pirates. Manned by over 18,000 m...
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Proceedings of the Fort Chipewyan and Fort Vermilion Bicentennial Conference
CCI Press£19.99| /Focuses on the aboriginal beginnings, histories, present conditions, and future prospects of the regions, touching on prehistory and early contact,...
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Promises Promises
Massey University PressOriginal price £46.99Current price £40.99| /A lively history of political advertising in New Zealand, from the first election of the modern era in 1939 to today. Brimming with political-party...
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Provincetown Discovered
Schiffer£11.99| /This photographic record of Provincetown, Massachusetts captures some of New England's best seascapes and architecture. Here is where the Pilgrim e...
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Public Opinion & Solution Prospects For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£143.99| /The circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Camp David summit between U.S. president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Pale...
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Pueblo Nations
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /Highly regarded by Native Americans as well as Anglo and Hispanic historians, Sando's book covers the origins and development of Pueblo civilizatio...
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Pueblo Profiles
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /In this new book, Sando weaves a tapestry of individual lives against a backdrop of history, telling the stories of more than thirty political lead...
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Puma & Other German Recon Vehicles
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Covers the use and design of the Puma and other German reconnaissance vehicles.
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Pursuing China
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and so...
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Pushing Boundaries
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /We know a lot about the early missionaries who came to New Zealand from 1814 and how Christianity developed through their complex interactions with...
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Queering the Way
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...
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