Give Us the Vote!: Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the Ballot (Rubin Susan Goldman)(Paperback)

Give Us the Vote!: Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the Ballot (Rubin Susan Goldman)(Paperback)

The activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles for the right to vote are chronicled by an award-winning nonfiction author. For over 200 years, people have marched, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto

Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield (Rubin Susan Goldman)(Paperback / softback)

On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Kitchen K. A.)(Paperback)

For more than two hundred years controversy has raged over the reliability of the Old Testament. Questions about the factuality of its colorful stories of heroes, villains, and kings, for example, have led many critics to see the entire Hebrew Bible as little more than pious fiction. In this

Century Girls - The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History (Dunlop Tessa)(Paperback / softback)

A celebration of the one-hundred years since British women got the vote, told, in their own voices, by six centenarians - The Century

Island (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in

The Age of Empires (Aldrich Robert)(Paperback)

For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they produced. Empires evoke potent images: Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, and the gallery

Meaning of Zong (NHB Modern Plays) (Terera Giles)(Paperback / softback)

Over two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano changed the world. After reading reports of the British ship Zong, where 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, he joins forces with anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp and together they set in motion events which will go on to galvanise the

Women and the Vote: A World History (Adams Jad)(Paperback)

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (Khalidi Rashid)(Paperback)

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in

Visions of Health: Understanding Iridology (Jensen Bernard)(Paperback)

For over one hundred years, researchers have studied the links between health and the patterns, colors, and textures of the iris. In the United States, Dr. Bernard Jensen brought the art of reading the iris into the twentieth century. In Visions of Health, Drs. Jensen and Bodeen describe the basics

The Avant-Garde: A Very Short Introduction (Cottington David)(Paperback)

For over a hundred years, the idea of the 'avant-garde' has been perhaps the most important and influential force in modern culture, ruling the critical assessment of the significance of an artist or a work of art. If they have been judged to be 'avant-garde,' then they are worthy of consideration

Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections (Calloway Colin G.)(Paperback)

For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society--missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, hobbyists and enthusiasts, and even royalty. Today, German scholars continue to be drawn to Indians,

Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts Over Two Millennia (O'Hear Natasha)(Paperback)

The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas (Metropolitan Museum of Art the)(Pevná vazba)

Through Edgar Degas's beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his

Coastliners (Harris Joanne)(Paperback / softback)

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities have fought for control of the island's only beach. When Mado returns home ot her village after a ten-year absence, she finds it threatened, both by the tides

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (Wahnich Sophie)(Paperback)

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged

The Epic of Gilgamesh (Kovacs Maureen Gallery)(Paperback)

Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through

Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform) (Bryant Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. This second volume has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone,

Arctic Mirrors: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History (Slezkine Yuri)(Paperback)

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. 'They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests,' reported a fifteenth-century tale. 'They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people,'

The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 (Dull Jonathan R.)(Paperback)

For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called 'ships of the line' dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and France, whose advanced economies could support

Voice of the Eagle (Shuler Linda Lay)(Paperback)

IT WAS TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS. THE SPIRITS OF NATURE WALKED THE EARTH... And the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa,

A-Z of Curiosities of the Yorkshire Dales (Strevens Summer)(Paperback / softback)

Exploring the origins, history and culture behind over two hundred 'curiosities' from across the region, some of which have not been revealed in print

Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman Emma)(Paperback)

In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the 'notorious Anarchist,' feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldman. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known

Prophecy of Isaiah (Motyer Alec (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Alec Motyer gives us the fruit of over three decades of the study of Isaiah. With reference to the Hebrew