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A History of the County of York East Riding : Holderness
K. J. Allison
Hardcover - $226.95
The volume tells the stories of eighteen parishes in the southern part of Holderness wapentake, the wedge of Yorkshire between the North Sea and the Humber. The low--lying landscape has changed repeatedly during the historical period, with lands alon ...
Blunt Trauma : After the Fall of Flight 111
Ivy Bannister
Paperback - $26.95
On September 2, 1998, a cockpit fire sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 men, women, and children on board perished. Blunt Trauma, set in Dublin and New York City and on the South Shore of Nova Scotia ...
Modern World History : Patterns of Interaction
Roger B. Beck
Hardcover - $221.95
Lent has traditionally been a time for self-denial and penitence, a time to examine the baser aspects of human nature. But the church increasingly recognizes that this negative focus does not always build a relationship with God, especially among wom ...
The Culture of Flushing : A Social and Legal History of Sewage
Jamie Benidickson
Paperback - $66.95
To most, the flush of a toilet is routine -- the way we banish waste and ensure cleanliness. It is safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. Yet Jamie Benidicksons examination of the social and legal history of sewage in the ...
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony : The World Order Since 1500
Jeremy Black
Paperback - $80.95
Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829
Allan Blackstock
Hardcover - $187.95
Irish loyalism is often neglected in the historical literature or misrepresented as an ideologically rigid and narrowly sectarian foil to emerging nationalism. Yet, in the French Revolutionary wars, loyalism was a recognisable counter-revolutionary i ...