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  • Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History

    by Mary Orr ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    History from below uncovers overlooked protagonists contributing to (inter)national endeavour often against considerable odds. Mrs T. Edward Bowdich then Mrs R. Lee (1791–1856) is indicative. When women allegedly cannot participate in early nineteenth-century scientific exploration, discovery and publication, Sarah’s multiple specialist contributions to French and British natural history have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Inspiration Bonaparte?

    German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation

    by Professor Christian Moser, Professor Mary Orr, Helmut J. Schneider, Professor Rebecca Stewart, Professor Michael Michael White, Professor Andrew Cusack, Professor Bernd Fischer, Professor Elystan Griffiths, Wolf Kittler, Professor Susanne Kord, Elisabeth Krimmer, Laura Anna Macor ...
    Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    COVIDOLOGY

    Sharing Life Lessons from Behind the Mask

    by Paul Iarrobino, Jamison Green, Brenda Culhane, Carol Brownlow, Carol Loo, Holly Robison, Holly Stern, Judith Ashley, Mary Orr, Michael Coscia, Randa Cleaves Abramson, Russell Alexander-Orozco, Shere Coleman, Stacey Rice, Weston Anderson ...
    Narrated by Jason Zenobia ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    Paul Iarrobino was compelled to create this new body of work based on his personal experiences navigating the pandemic. Witnessing and learning from others fueled the energy around creating a collection of stories and poems to give meaning to changed lives in a topsy-turvy world.Fifteen literary gems are inside for you to explore how COVID has affected people. How similar have your experiences ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York

    by Stephanie Anderson ...
    This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous William Buckley, both as a tale of human survival and as an enthralling and accessible ethnographic ... Read more

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  • Frederick the Great

    King of Prussia

    by Tim Blanning ...
    The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of historyFew figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered territories, a minor Germanic backwater. By the end of his reign, the much larger and consolidated Prussia ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Vanished

    An Unnatural History of Extinction

    by Sadiah Qureshi ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2025 & BSHS PICKSTONE PRIZE 2026A GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH BEST SCIENCE BOOK 2025WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK 2025'A vital and important book' David OlusogaFrom an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial ... ... Read more

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  • Reluctant Meister

    How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future

    by Stephen Green ...
    The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history. Reluctant Meister is a wide-ranging study of Germany from the Holy Roman Empire through the Second and Third Reichs, and it asks not only how such a mature and developed culture ... Read more

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  • An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

    by Dionne Brand ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Weimar

    From Enlightenment to the Present

    by Michael H. Kater ...
    Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Germany's Wild East

    Constructing Poland as Colonial Space

    by Kristin Kopp ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from ... Read more

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  • Maria Theresa

    The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

    by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides ... Read more

    $21.99 USD