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• Author(s): Joseph Heathcott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: History - GeneralThe Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through...

• Author(s): Chris Thomas • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Professional archaeologists have been working in the city of London, and revealing its secrets, since the early 1970s. This book celebrat...

• Author(s): Ramachandran M. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralThe metro rail system introduced in major Indian cities in recent years has resulted in significant improvements in ...

• Author(s): Michael B. Miller • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: HistoryEurope and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new framework for understanding globalizati...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe essays in this volume focus on the surviving remains in India of pre-modern public buildings like sarais, bridges and water-works of dif...

• Author(s): MurmuMaroona • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralWords of her own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an explo...

• Author(s): Paul Aron • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - GeneralAbout the Book Praise for Unsolved Mysteries of American History "The facts are presented clearly and concisely, and the answ...

• Author(s): Stone | . • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAbout the Book In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emer...

• Author(s): MATHIEU • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAbout the Book Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically...

• Author(s): Lawrence Freedman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's lead...

• Author(s): Fara • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryDr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side ...

• Author(s): Richard Toye • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - World War IIAbout the Book The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energize...

• Author(s): Mark Ravina • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalAbout the Book The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his deat...

• Author(s): Grewal J S • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Master Tara Singh (1885-1967), Akali leader, freedom fig...

• Author(s): Radhey Shyam Chaurasia • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryVolume four of the book studies the period from 1870 to 1945. During this period tremendous progress had been made with the help of scientif...

• Author(s): Olmsted Kathryn S. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAbout the Book The textbook is based on the lectures of the course "Synthetic Biology" for Master's stud...

• Author(s): Nijhawan Shobna • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics"Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghol...

• Author(s): Ted Schwarz • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Advance Praise for Joseph P. Kennedy "Ted Schwarz gives us a darker, and truer, picture of the founding father (and only Kennedy to ever make ...

• Author(s): Niccolao Manucci • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryMogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and ann...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Lewis • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book A memorable account of a forgotten chapter in American history If you think that America's western expansion began on the banks of the Mis...

• Author(s): Ghani • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryThe book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufi...

• Author(s): Binckes Faith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAbout the Book This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding...

• Author(s): Kemp Martin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralAbout the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a high...

• Author(s): Larry Schweikart | Bradley J. Birzer • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book In this authoritative and comprehensive resource, you'll find detailed information on a vast array of topics related ...

• Author(s): Gilsdorf Janet R. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryNot all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 2...

• Author(s): Alan Baker • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book One moment the Vikings were a mere speck on the sea; the next, a murderous force slashing its way into unprotected monasteries and villages; an...

• Author(s): Schilling Heinz | Rona Johnston • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ReligiousNo other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive ...

• Author(s): Niccolao Manucci • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryMogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and ann...

• Author(s): Susan Ronald • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it engenderedT...

• Author(s): SlinnSpira | Judy Slinn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Business EthicsAbout the Book The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Commi...

• Author(s): Pero G. Dagbovie • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: History • BISAC: African American & BlackAbout the Book The past and future of Black history In this information-overloaded twenty-first centur...

• Author(s): Vahed Goolam;DesaiAshwin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Africa - GeneralAbout the Book A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quar...

• Author(s): Buckner F. Melton Jr. • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Aaron Burr remains one of the most darkly compelling figures in early United States history. Best known as the man who killed Alexan...

• Author(s): Weber | . • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IAbout the Book In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--...

• Author(s): Richard Cork • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: History • BISAC: European - GeneralAbout the Book Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. Th...

• Author(s): Edelman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryOrwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosi...