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  • The History Boys Part Two

    More Iconic Nottingham Forest Goals

    by David Marples ...
    The History Boys Part Two celebrates the iconic goals that have defined the illustrious history of Nottingham Forest.Beginning in 1880 with Sam Widdowson and concluding with the remarkable 2024/25 season, this book revisits the strikes that shaped the club's identity. It uncovers the stories behind the most famous goals, as well as some of the unusual and overlooked efforts that still echo in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reds and Rams

    A Story of the East Midlands Derby

    by David Marples ...
    Reds and Rams: A Story of the East Midlands Derby is the tale of one of the most fiercely fought football rivalries in the world. Hewed from the Victorian industrial revolution, Nottingham Forest and Derby County have contested league games for 130 years. Ever since the 1898 FA Cup Final, the rivalry has ebbed and flowed, with each club enjoying both periods of sustained success and existential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History Boys

    Thirty Iconic Goals in the History of Nottingham Forest

    by David Marples ...
    The History Boys celebrates 30 iconic goals and players in the illustrious history of Nottingham Forest. Featuring exclusive interviews and detailed career profiles, it delves deep into the club's defining moments, which echo down through history and resonate with each generation of Forest fans. Goals don't just change games of football, they change lives—not only of those who scored them, but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belarus

    A Denationalized Nation

    by David Marples ...
    Series series Postcommunist States and Nations
    In any assessment and understanding of Belarus, the key questions to address include; why has Belarus apparently rejected independence under its first president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and sought a union with Russia? Why has the government rejected democracy, infringed on the human rights of its citizens and fundamentally altered its constitution in favour of presidential authority? Has the country ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Belarus

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David R. Marples, Veronica Laputska ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Recent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring independence in 1991, Belarus remained a little-known republic in the West, despite its important geostrategic position between Poland and Russia, and as a conduit for Russian energy supplies to central Europe. In the late Soviet period, it was best known as a victim of the 1986 nuclear accident at ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Russia in the Twentieth Century

    The quest for stability

    by David R. Marples ...
    The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary Russia has retained many of the practices and memories of the Soviet period, it is not about ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Motherland

    Russia in the Twentieth Century

    by David R. Marples ...
    Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.David Marples focuses on the evolution of Russia during the Soviet period, and the attempt to harness Russian nationalism to the avowed Soviet mission of promoting ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Joseph Stalin

    A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

    by David R. Marples, Alla Hurska ...
    Series series Significant Figures in World History
    The figure of Stalin continues to intrigue, fascinate, and repel historians into the 21st century, while in the Russian Federation, he has returned to the status of a figure to be respected, principally as the leader who led his country through industrialization and militarization, enabling it to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War, thereby saving Europe and much of the world from the ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Lenin's Revolution

    Russia, 1917-1921

    by David R. Marples ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This study examines one of the key events in history, the Russian Revolution. Since the late Gorbachev period, a wealth of new material has become available to historians that has triggered intense scholarly debate on the nature of revolution. This timely new book takes account of the new scholarship, including - for example - the role of Lenin. It is argued that the intial flexibility of Lenin ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nuclear Energy And Security In The Former Soviet Union

    by David R Marples ...
    Only several years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear security issues are again at the forefront of international concern. This timely collection addresses issues of cleanup at Chernobyl and other sites of nuclear disasters, nuclear smuggling, safety concerns in the Ukrainian and Russian nuclear industries, and Ukraine’s negotiations with Russia and the West regarding the transference ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991

    by David R. Marples ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Why did the Soviet Union collapse in 1991?The collapse of the Soviet Union has widely been seen as the result of the arms race and Cold War, and the failure of the Soviet side to keep pace with new technology. This book argues that the disintegration was mainly a result of two interrelated factors: the rise of the Soviet national republics, and the manipulation of the new Russian presidency by ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts

    by Aya Fujiwara, Atsuko Shigesawa, Yuko Shibata, James Keeley, Frederick Mills, Mayako Shimamoto, Tomoko Masumoto, William Beard, Ritsuko Komaki, Susan Smith0, Jordan Vincent1, Chris Reyns-Chikuma2, Jin Hamamura3, David R Marples5 ...
    75 years after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy: in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world. What lessons have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD