Cambridge University Press
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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Kropotkin: ‘The Conquest of Bread’ and Other Writings
$25.00 Add to cartThe Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatz’s introduc… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 1995
- ISBN10: 0521459907
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$39.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
$69.67 Add to cartThe Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of… [more below]
- Author: Stewart-Williams, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: September 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1108425046
- Language: English
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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
$34.00 Add to cartThe Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it develope… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107659434
- Language: English
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A Mathematician’s Apology (Canto Classics)
$19.00 Add to cartG. H. Hardy was one of this century’s finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a ‘real mathematician … the purest of the pure’. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his F… [more below]
- Series: Canto
- Author: Hardy, G. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 110760463X
- Language: English
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The Past is a Foreign Country – Revisited
$63.75 Add to cartThe past remains essential – and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man’s attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest… [more below]
- Author: Lowenthal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0521616859
- Language: English
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History Archaeological Thought 2ed
$79.33 Add to cartIn its original edition, Bruce Trigger’s book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition… [more below]
- Author: Trigger, Bruce G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 726
- Publish Date: September 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0521600499
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
$63.75 Add to cartRepresenting one of the great traditions of Western philosophy, philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world was inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Adamson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 09 2004
- ISBN10: 052152069X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Switzerland
$34.00 Add to cartDespite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland’s history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging histo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Church, Clive H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 339
- Publish Date: May 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0521143829
- Language: English
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Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes
$23.00 Add to cartEvery year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: NOW… [more below]
- Author: Funk, Chris C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1108839878
- Language: English
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After the Korean War: An Intimate History
$49.58 Add to cartFollowing his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War’s enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate … [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Kwon, Heonik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1108487920
- Language: English
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A Philosopher Looks at Science
$18.99 Add to cartWhat is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically re… [more below]
- Series: A Philosopher Looks at
- Author: Cartwright, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1009201883
- Language: English
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Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture
$110.83 Add to cartGenerations of Christians, Janet Soskice demonstrates, once knew God and Christ by hundreds of remarkable names. These included the appellations ‘Messiah’, ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Alpha’, ‘Omega’, ‘Eternal’, ‘Al… [more below]
- Author: Soskice, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1108834469
- Language: English
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Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives
$38.25 Add to cartToday, almost anyone can upload and disseminate newsworthy content online, which has radically transformed our information ecosystem. Yet this often leaves us exposed to content produced without ethic… [more below]
- Author: Koenig, Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1108995748
- Language: English
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The Book of Lamentations
$45.33 Add to cart- Series: New Cambridge Bible Commentary
- Author: Berman, Joshua A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1108440142
- Language: English
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Female Husbands: A Trans History
$66.50 Add to cartLong before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands – people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married… [more below]
- Author: Manion, Jen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1108483801
- Language: English
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Conquering the Physics GRE
$59.50 Add to cartThe Physics GRE plays a significant role in deciding admissions to nearly all US physics Ph.D. programs, yet few exam-prep books focus on the test’s actual content and unique structure. Recognized as … [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Yoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1108409563
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939
$41.08 Add to cartThis book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes… [more below]
- Series: New Histories of American Law
- Author: Dale, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1107401364
- Language: English
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Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
$110.83 Add to cartDuring the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were w… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Doris L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 110848770X
- Language: English
