Regional & National History
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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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Struggling with My Soul
Boulder Publications Ltd£13.99| /George Richs Struggling with My Soul is a story of growing up caught between two worlds. A Labrador Mushuau Innu, Georges family and people gave ...
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Studies in Zoroastrian Family Law
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£53.99| /The source material of the book is translated from the only existent Sasanian law text and two Rivâyats from the first half of the ninth and the fi...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Subverting Syria
Progressive Press (US)£11.99| /The Syrian "uprising" is a cynical US-engineered plot using provocateurs, mercenaries, Wahhabi fanatics, corrupt NGO's and the global media. The US...
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Sultan Selim I
Blue Dome Press (US)£11.99| /Sultan Selim I was an extraordinary sultan who virtually re-established the Ottoman state. This work relates his approach to developments in his ti...
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Summers in St. Andrews
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Summertime in late 19th-century St. Andrews was more than a vacation by the sea, it was a lifestyle. "Discovered" by a wealthy few who felt the nee...
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Sunday Best
Massey University Press£42.99| /The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new moral colony that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Chr...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /This superb book describes the superpowers' involvement in the Iran-Iraq war. The study shows how the superpowers, particularly the United States, ...
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Suppliers to the Confederacy Volume II
Schiffer Military£36.99| /In hopes of impeding a young United States, the British supplied the Confederacy with arms and equipment. This book - along with Volume I - will be...
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Surveying Southern British Columbia
Caitlin Press (CA)£23.99| /Jay Sherwood's fourth and final book about prominent BC surveyor Frank Swannell, covers the years from 1901 to 1907, before Swannell began surveyin...
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Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta-BC boundary survey underta...
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Surveying the Great Divide
Caitlin Press (CA)£21.99| /In 1917, during Canadas 50th anniversary, there was little celebration in the country as it entered the fourth year of World War I. This conflict ...
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Tūrangawaewae
Massey University Press£38.99| /What is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes New Zealand complex, a...
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Table Against Mine Enemies
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /The world is in the midst of a revolution in military affairs, caused by a shift from symmetric to asymmetric war the digitisation and globalisatio...
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Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Compiled during the Song dynasty (960--1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial hi...
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Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /Compiled during the Song dynasty (960--1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial hi...
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Tales From the Back Room
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Emerging from the back rooms, ultimate insider Michael Decter treats us to a range of raunchy and riveting stories of politics in Canada. From his ...
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Tales of Arizona Territory
Golden West Cookbooks£13.99| /Find out what life was like in old Arizona, one of the last territories to be tamed and settled.
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Talking Pots
Golden West Cookbooks£20.99| /Archaeologist James Cunkle is researching the Raven Site ruin the White Mountains of Arizona and from that site is putting back together the pieces...
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Tall Tales & True
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /This book presents new ways of considering colonial India by re-examining eight emblematic stories. The structure of the collection is modelled on ...
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Tangata o le Moana
Te Papa Press£61.99| /This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand socie...
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Taos
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£25.99| /In the 1950's, Frank Waters wrote, "For a tiny hinterland community that has never heard of the whistle of a train, [Taos's] impact has been exceed...
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