Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as…

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

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Memoir of Major-General George H. Thomas is a book written by Richard W. Johnson and published in 1881. The book is a biography of Major-General George H. Thomas, a Union…

This influential volume of papers, chosen by Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, recognises her major contribution to the field of developmental psychology. Published over a 40-year period, the papers included here address…

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs…

Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence do not typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But Harvey Whitehouse’s ‘modes of religiosity’ theory…