Regional & National History
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Slow Catastrophes
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will in...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Snorri Sturluson: Heimskringla
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£12.00| /This second part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla includes the life of Óláfr Haraldsson, king of Norway from 1015 until his fall in ...
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So Help Me God
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£19.99| /Since George Washington used one in his 1789 inauguration, the Bible has become an indelible part of almost every American presidential inauguratio...
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Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...
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Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...
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Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...
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Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...
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Societies in Transition
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£104.99| /The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...
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Soldier, the Builder & the Diplomat
Cune Press (US)£30.99| /Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, a...
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Soldier, the Builder & the Diplomat
Cune Press (US)£18.99| /Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, a...
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Soldiers of the White Sun
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The Chinese Nationalist Army was at war almost continuously from 1931 until 1949 fighting first against the invading Japanese Imperial Army until 1...
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Song of Courage, Song of Freedom
Branden Publishing Co (US)£13.99| /Details the kidnapping, captivity, and return of an Ohio girl by Delaware Indians in the eighteenth century.
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Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£61.99| /The band return with the early medieval southern Italy (include Sicily) is a much more, its steadily changing the contact and border region in the ...
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Soviet Civilization Between Past & Present
Odense University Press (DK)£21.00| /This anthology focuses on various aspects and manifestations of consciousness, in particular of mass consciousness, in the Soviet Union and post-So...
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Soviet Communists & Russian History
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£75.99| /This book describes some of the key characters involved and their deeds. The second part is about some leaders of Imperial Russia. It seems clear t...
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Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fr...
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Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fr...
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Sparks of Resistance
Odense University Press (DK)£28.00| /The illegal press in Denmark opposing German occupation grew to impressive size and influence by the end of World War II. Buts its origins were mod...
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Special Panzer Variants
Schiffer Military£45.99| /This volume in the series is a collection of lesser-known German armor developments including the Maus, Hummel, Wespe, Karl, Goliath and others.
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Spirit of Powwow
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£30.99| /Spirit of Powwow has evolved as we have talked with dancers and drummers until we feel we now have a powwow book that goes beyond the usual mere de...
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Splendid Little War
Burford Books (US)£19.99| /This is the compelling story of this often over-looked conflict, told largely in the words of the participants themselves. It was a war peopled by ...
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Spook War
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book gives a glimpse and a tour into the primary and collateral events triggered when the Reagan Administration abruptly shifted three decades...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£17.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£9.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spy of David
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 -- he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma -- easily could have b...
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SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Weidinger
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Holder of the Knights Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, Otto Weidinger was the last commander of SS-Regiment Der Führer. Among the best field offic...
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St Joseph's Island
ATF Press£29.99| /There has been little written about Tenison Woods who as a significant figure in Australian Catholic Church life at the time of St Mary Mackillop, ...
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St. Michaels, Oxford, and the Talbot County Bayside
Schiffer£36.99| /Enjoy a nostalgic tour around the Chesapeake Bay's charming Talbot County, Maryland, via more than 255 vintage postcards and 25 contemporary photog...
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Stagecoach
Schiffer£22.99| /Over 280 rare and often unpublished vintage photographs explore life in the Old West, from the Gold Rush to the First World War. Here are the stage...
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Stagecoach North
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£23.99| /An in-depth look at the origins and operations of a pioneering transportation company that moved people and goods across the province throughout th...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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Star Mountains Expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1959
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£21.95| /In 1959, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG) organised a multidisciplinary expedition (Geology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Zoology and Bota...
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State Building in the Middle of a Geopolitical Struggle
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£40.00| /Rolando Dromundo presents a political and historical analysis of the state-building processes in Ukraine, Moldova, and the unrecognized Republic of...
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Staying Canadian
DC Books (US)£15.99| /In October 1995, under the control of the Quebec Liberal Party, the NO campaign avoided all mention of the key arguments against secession. Liberal...
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Steady Lens
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /In the early 1900s, Mary Spencer attracted a small audience with her breathtaking photographs of the local scenery and townsfolk of Kamloops. Altho...
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Steel & Silk
Cune Press (US)£30.99| /Consists of profiles of 341 men and women. Syria has led the Arab World in many ways for the past 100 years. It was the headquarters of the Arab na...
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Steel Cavalry
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfar...
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Storfall fur die gute Nachbarschaft?
V & R Unipress GmbH£61.99| /The oil crisis in autumn 1973 is considered to be the decisive turning point in the 1970s. It painfully demonstrated the dependence of the western ...
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Stories from Sagas of the Kings
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /CONTENTS: Abbreviated references; Introduction; Halldórs páttr Snorrasonar inn fyrri; Halldórs páttr Snorrasonar inn síðari; Stúfs páttr inn meiri;...
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Stories My Father Told Me
Cune Press (US)£24.99| /Twenty-five paintings by Helen Zughaib accompanied by text based on favorite stories told by her father about life in Syria and Lebanon in the 1930...
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Stories Told
CCI Press£15.99| /Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told...
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Story of the Drinking Horn
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£27.00| /This study is devoted to the fascinating story of the drinking horn and how it was used in western culture from Antiquity to modern times. In speci...
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Strangers on the Praia
Blacksmith Books£7.99| /Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek...
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Strangling of Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...
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Stronger than Iron
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This eye-witness account details the destruction of Vilna Jewry at the hands of the Nazis. Its chronicle of life in the two Vilna ghettos is the on...
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Struggling Over Israel's Soul
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£18.99| /In all the command positions that he held, General Elazar Stern knew that the role of the Israel Defense Forces was not limited solely to achieving...
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