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Culture, Confession, Ethnicity and Race in the Middle Basin of the Danube

By: Octavian Căpățînă

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This book exposes the hidden history of Central-Eastern Europe: a tiny minority dominating a vast majority through a culture of intolerance. It dismantles long-held myths, presenting a truth now irrefutably confirmed by modern genetic science.

Culture, Power, and Security

New Directions in the History of National and International Security

Edited By: Mary Kathryn Barbier, Richard V. Damms

£39.99

A diverse group of historians grapples with the notion of “security” across time and geography. Drawing on new sources, these engaging essays offer fresh perspectives on military, political, intelligence, and foreign relations history.

Daimonic Imagination

Uncanny Intelligence

Edited By: Patrick Curry, William Rowlandson

£54.99

This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.

Dante as Political Theorist

Reading Monarchia

Edited By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

£61.99

Originating from the First International Symposium of the Global Dante Project of New York held in 2015, the chapters here investigate Dante’s political treatise Monarchia, addressing diverse issues associated with this work from multiple, innovative methodological perspectives.

Daring Dynasty

Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England

By: Mark R. Horowitz

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Through impressive archival research over several decades and a provocative perspective, Horowitz illuminates the transformation of England into an emerging modern state under Henry VII, by exploring key aspects of his reign, which included a dark side to royal policy.

Daughters of the Nile

Egyptian Women Changing Their World

Edited By: Samia Spencer

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Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.

Dawn of Behavioural Finance, 1688

By: Vasileios Kallinterakis

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This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.

Dawn of Discovery

The Early British Travellers to Crete

By: Dudley Moore

£44.99

This book focuses on three British travellers—‘lost pioneers’ who researched Bronze Age Crete before Sir Arthur Evans. By following their footsteps and comparing their journals to what is there today, the author uncovers their contributions with intriguing results.

Death on the Move

Managing Narratives, Silences and Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective

Edited By: Philip J. Havik, José Mapril, Clara Saraiva

£61.99

This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.

Decentralised Governance and Planning in Karnataka, India

By: Satyanarayana Sangita, Anil Vaddiraju

£34.99

Though the Indian Constitution provides for local self-government, state politics often undermine it. This book, a study of Karnataka, examines the gap between policy and practice in decentralised planning, with lessons for other states and developing countries.

Decolonising the Mediterranean

European Colonial Heritages in North Africa and the Middle East

Edited By: Gabriele Proglio

£45.99

Centring on North African, Maghreb and Mashrek countries’ colonial legacies, this collection investigates borders from a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics in each chapter are different, they all suggest a specific path for decolonising knowledge.

Defending against Climate Risk

Lessons and Stories from a Foot Soldier in the Climate Wars

By: Gary Yohe

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The climate wars are not fiction. This book teaches you how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate risk. It presents lessons in risk management drawn from the author’s experiences working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Democrats into Nazis

Middle Class Radicalisation in a Single German Town, 1918-1924

By: Alex Burkhardt

From £30.99

How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”

Development of the Roadmap of Political Zionism in the State of Israel

By: Mari Carmen Forriol

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This book analyzes Zionism, from its origins in European antisemitism to its implantation in historic Palestine. It maps its development since the creation of Israel and examines the consequences: the occupation, the violation of inhabitants' rights, and Hamas's response.

Dialogues on the Delta

Approaches to the City of Stockton

Edited By: Martín Camps

£61.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.

Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction

Edited By: Keith Ellis

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Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term "dictatorship," re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Diefenbaker and Latin America

The Pursuit of Canadian Autonomy

By: Jason Gregory Zorbas

£34.99

John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada's dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada’s dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

Disability and Medieval Law

History, Literature, Society

Edited By: Cory James Rushton

£39.99

Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?

Discourses That Matter

Selected Essays on English and American Studies

Edited By: Maria José Canelo

£44.99

Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field's capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.

Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.

Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939

Myth or Reality?

By: John O’Brien

£19.99

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland's Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.