The Women's House of Detention. A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, Hardback - Hugh Ryan

Publisher: Bold Type BooksAuthor(s): Hugh RyanNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 245 x 165 x 30Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.***An ALA GLBT Round Table ...

Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in...

Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication netwo...

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a who s who of queer history: it is a book th...

DescriptionQueer history didn't start with Stonewall. This book explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity, contrib...

Reducere. This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings h...

Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, IncAuthor(s): Caline NasrallahNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 14Cover type...

A long-awaited set of traditional tales focusing solely on the queer community, showing princesses can fall in love with lady bards, warriors with ...

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.Illustrations: 70 illustrations

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentPublisher: Yale University PressAut...

But the drum of the New Model Army beat ever louder and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells...

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Editor(s): Frank Wynne

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Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster - M. W. Daly

Reducere. Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Educ...

Reducere. This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-s...

To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to be the unluckiest It was a time of Prohibition, Jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): D J VodickaNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

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Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Description"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, an...

For centuries, post-and-beam construction has proved to be one of the most durable building techniques. It is being enthusiastically revived today ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Dr Joanne PaulNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 243 x 42Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

This book is the first documentation of the entire journey of Pakistan's women's international cricket team, serving to fill that void in the story...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a ...

Reducere. The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tr...

In 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from maximum security Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York. After three weeks on the run, one inmate was ...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

DescriptionA vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have a...

Reducere. 2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stori...

Uncovering the hidden history at the heart of Blackrock

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

Reducere. The true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-fiv...

Retaining all the well-loved features, this book explores in depth the key political, economic, social and international changes which helped to mo...

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Buzzflash/TruthOut Progressive Pick of the Week From t...

Reducere. Vidkun Quisling, Norway's infamous Nazi collaborator, was perhaps the world's most renowned traitor. In early 1942, when he rose to power in occupi...

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Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

Reducere. In 1988, detectives from the Sacramento Police Department were called to investigate the disappearance of a man at his last known address, a boardi...

Reducere. Using historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe present Maryland s golden age of the cocktail. Recipe c...

The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923Publisher: Yale Univer...

The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meet...

With step-by-step exam practice strategies and Examiner Tip features for all AQA question types, this revision guide offers the clear revision appr...

Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War ...

Uncovering the hidden history at the heart of Merrrion and Booterstown

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Based on 'a national collection of a national instrument' in National Museums Scotland, the book puts the musicology of the bagpipe in its European...