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The Rise and Fall of the Library of Alexandria

By: Jean-Arcady Meyer

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Alexandria's Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city's rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.

Alexandria’s Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city’s rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.

Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece

A Comparison

By: Evy Johanne Håland

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How can we understand ancient Greek healing rituals when the men who recorded them could not know what occurred? This book compares ancient sources with modern rituals still performed by women, bringing both worlds into mutual illumination and offering new interpretations.

Sources of British Revolutionary Politics

Edited By: R. G. Williams

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A collection of radical documents covering revolutionary and working-class politics in Great Britain. It covers movements in British history from ancient Britain (60 CE) to the rise of the modern labour movement in 1920.

A Decade at the Communist University for the Workers from the East (1925-1935)

By: Sabine Trebinjac

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This book examines the education of Uyghur elites in Moscow (1925-1935) at the University of the Workers of the East. Using student biographies, it reveals why this Comintern project to forge a revolution failed and how it could have succeeded against Soviet & Chinese control.

The Effects of The Black Death in England

Magna Mortalitas

By: Albin Wallace

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This book gives an overview of the effects of The Black Death on the politics, culture, social structures, and economies of England, using both original commentaries and recent scholarship to document the impact of the 1348 Plague on the country's development.

The Control Data Corporation’s Early Systems

By: Stephen H. Kaisler

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This book focuses on the Control Data Corporation’s early systems, which reflected the design principles of Seymour Cray. CDC developed fast processors for scientific and engineering organizations, and this volume covers their architectures, software, and key applications.

Economic Analyses of Prehistoric Greece

From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

By: Donald Jones

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This collection of essays uses economic theory to investigate Greek archaeology, from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. Topics include the urbanization of Crete, Bronze Age shipping, the post-Mycenaean population collapse, the Sea Peoples, and piracy.

The Control Data Corporation’s Supercomputer Systems

The Need for Speed

By: Stephen H. Kaisler

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This volume focuses on Control Data Corporation’s supercomputers, which brought Seymour Cray's design principles to maturity. For over 25 years, CDC sold some of the fastest machines for science and engineering, and this book covers their systems, software, and key applications.

This volume focuses on Control Data Corporation’s supercomputers, which brought Seymour Cray’s design principles to maturity. For over 25 years, CDC sold some of the fastest machines for science and engineering, and this book covers their systems, software, and key applications.

Alec Nelson and British Athletics prior to World War II

A Professional amongst Gentlemen

By: Ian Stone

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The life of coach Alec Nelson explores the hypocrisy of British athletics in the Chariots of Fire era. Though necessary for success, professional coaches were kept in their place by elite athletes, exposing the class-based antagonism at the heart of the sport.

Managing Mass Education, and the Rise of Modern and Financial Management

Footsteps and Foundations

By: Ian Waitt

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This book reveals the unrecognized link between modern management and mass education. It explores how the charismatic teacher Joseph Lancaster’s plan for mass education enabled the industrial revolutions and the parallel growth of financial management worldwide.

An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History

The Plague of Sumer

By: Philip Anthony Norrie

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Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.

Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century

Speaking Picture and Silent Text

Edited By: Amina Alyal

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This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.

Becoming Ira Aldridge, a Black Shakespearean Actor in Nineteenth Century Ireland

By: Christine Kinealy

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Fleeing American prejudice, Black actor Ira Aldridge became Europe's leading Shakespearean tragedian. A celebrated star and fierce abolitionist, he used his stage to fight for equality. This book reveals Aldridge's profound and overlooked connection to Ireland.

Fleeing American prejudice, Black actor Ira Aldridge became Europe’s leading Shakespearean tragedian. A celebrated star and fierce abolitionist, he used his stage to fight for equality. This book reveals Aldridge’s profound and overlooked connection to Ireland.

Phillis Wheatley and Thomas Jefferson, Then and Now

A Historiographical and Contextual Analysis

By: Arthur Scherr

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This study offers a vital new perspective on African American poet Phillis Wheatley, reassessing her work and historical significance. It investigates the relationship between Wheatley and her greatest adversary: Thomas Jefferson, analyzing his infamous critique of her poetry.

Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation

Under the Soviet Shadow

By: Christopher McDowell

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Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.

The Various Models of Lordship in Europe between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries

Edited By: Antonio Antonetti, Riccardo Berardi

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This collection synthesizes recent scholarship on medieval lordship. Exploring seigneurial systems from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, it emphasizes both institutional and informal forms of power. It offers a framework for newcomers and an in-depth tool for long-term scholars.

Nils Astrup’s 1889 Trek Translated

A Missionary Journey to the Limpopo

Edited By: Frederick Hale

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In 1889, at a critical historical juncture, Nils Astrup journeyed through Zululand and Swaziland as empires vied for control. His diary, now in its first English translation, offers a unique eyewitness account of colonialism’s impact on a region in dramatic flux.

A History of Public Administration in the United States

The Rise of American Bureaucracy

By: Mordecai Lee

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This book examines the emergence of American public administration. As a history of American bureaucracy, it focuses on pivotal events, highlighting major controversies including the field's anti-democratic origins, Congressional hostility, and early limits on the role of women.

This book examines the emergence of American public administration. As a history of American bureaucracy, it focuses on pivotal events, highlighting major controversies including the field’s anti-democratic origins, Congressional hostility, and early limits on the role of women.

Ball Lightning as a Messenger from a New World of Circulating Light

By: Vladimir Torchigin, A. V. Torchigin

From £32.99

This book shows ball lightning is not electricity, but a bubble of light—a new object whose anomalous behaviour matches the mystery of natural ball lightning. The physical laws ensuring its stability are detailed, based on over 30 published scientific articles.

Richard Freund’s Legacy of Ideas, Research and Teaching about the Holocaust

Edited By: Philip Reeder

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This book highlights the research of pioneer Rabbi Richard A. Freund. Using non-invasive archaeology, geophysical techniques are applied at Holocaust sites, melding science with testimony and archival research to uncover the hidden aspects of the Holocaust.