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  • We trailed the Sioux. Top half of the book shows a drawing of soldiers, bottom half is dark blue with yellow/white text. Set on a dark red background

    We Trailed the Sioux

    They were ordinary men fighting Indians in 1876, in America’s glorious Centennial year. Thousands of common soldiers- privates, corporals, and sergeants of the infantry, cavalry and eventually artillery- waged a massive Indian war on the northern plains for nearly two years, following officers’ orders and long, dusty trails that often led to brutal combat with…

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  • Real-time medical image processing. Bright yellow cover with black text and a small black and white square image

    Real-Time Medical Image Processing

    The recent technical revolution in diagnostic medicine has resulted in an abundance of imaging instruments and methods having great value for research and clinical medicine. However, there exists a scarcity of reference volumes and textbooks on the subject for the initiate scientist and engineer.

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  • Mysterium Coniunctionis. Dark maroon cover with off white text boxes

    Mysterium Coniunctionis

    Mysterium Coniunctionis was first published in the Collected Works of C G Jung in 1963. For this second edition of the work, numerous corrections and revisions have been made in cross-references to other volumes of the Collected Works now available, and likewise in the Bibliography. Mysterium Coniunctionis was Jung’s last work of book length and…

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  • I was born a slave. white cover with top half covered by a coloured in drawing.

    I Was Born A Slave

    Over 120 autobiographies of ex-slaves were published as books or pamphlets between the mid-eighteenth and early twentieth centuries; all subsequent African American literature is descended from these seminal works. I Was Born A Slave collects the twenty most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini library of essential…

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  • Folio of Shakespeare

    The First Folio of Shakespeare

    This is a second edition of this volume, in as new, unread condition. Bound in excellent bright gilt lettered and illustrated red Morocco leather over pictorial buckram cloth, featuring contemporary illustration of Shakespeare’s Globe and the Thames.

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  • Disability Discrimination. Half bright pink and half bright green cover with opposite coloured text

    Disability Discrimination

    The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 imposed new duties on employers, trade organisations and businesses. It created new individual rights for disabled persons and opened up possibilities for new forms of litigations. Much of the Act is now in force and employers, service providers and property managers must respond now to these important changes in employment…

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  • Feminism and the mastery of nature. Of white cover with close up image of a leaf with a thick red line through it

    Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

    Feminism and the Mastery of Nature draws on a feminist critique of reason to argue that the master form of rationality of western culture has been systematically unable to acknowledge depending on nature, the sphere of those it has constituted as ‘inferior’ other. Because its knowledge of the world is systematically distorted b the elite…

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  • Y Bibl. A black cover on a dark red background

    Y Bibl

    An 1888 copy of ‘Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan, sef Yr Hen Destament a’r Newydd.’ A beautiful black, tooled leather Welsh language Bible, including both the old and new testament, dating back to 1888.

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  • Man Ray. Cover of book shows black and white image of a man adjusting a camera from side perspective. Set on a dark red background

    Man Ray

    A close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976)—the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky—embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of…

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