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Black: The History of a Color
Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and...
83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary: A Graphic Novel
A young adult graphic novel that captures the complexities of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the siege of Mariupol (Feb '22 - May '22) and the brave people who...
Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World
The armies of Genghis Khan, legendary founder of the Mongol Empire, breached the Great Wall of China and captured Peking. They crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and southern Russia...
Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth
Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people...
The Myths of Liberal Zionism
Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects...
The Flames: A gripping historical novel set in 1900s Vienna, featuring
A stunning debut novel about the intertwining lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele. For fans of THE PARIS WIFE, THE FAMILIARS, THE MINIATURIST...
Rubens
In this lively and original study, Kristin Lohse Belkin shows that there is far more to Peter Paul Rubens than the notorious Rubenesque nude. She explores his techniques and workshop...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Now a major Sky TV series
One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, now a major Sky TV series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FOR THIS EDITION I tattooed...
World History Biographies: Elizabeth I: The Outcast Who Became
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No one thought that Elizabeth would live to become Queen of England. Her father, Henry VIII, beheaded her mother, Anne Bolyn, for treason in 1536. He then disowned his daughter,...
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of
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This is the 2nd volume in the series Studia Antiqua Australiensia, produced within the Ancient History Documentation Research Centre, Macquarie University. This collection of Latin texts, published in a new...
Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late
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This collection of essays by Australian scholars offers a wealth of contemporary perspectives on cultural communication amongst men and women in late medieval and early modern Europe. Essays dealing with...
World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide
The definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II From the build-up of hostility in the years...
Architecture of the Nineteenth Century
This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects'...
Napoleon and His Marshals
At a time when military commanders in Europe were royal princes and dukes, Napoleon's marshals were often the sons of peasants or clerks. And they were usually half the age...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...
On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi...
The Cultural Values of Europe
What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions like these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary...
Blitzkrieg
This work offers an insight into the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk - the...
Arts and Crafts Architecture
This major survey gives an incisively critical account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the Arts and Crafts movement, which began in England and quickly influenced...
Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late
The Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity offers easily accessible introductions to the content and historical setting of the main writings of Greco-Roman paganism, early Judaism, and...
First World War
A dramatic new account of 'The Great War' that combines emotive photography with personal accounts which evoke both the futility and the spirit of the Great War. Considering every aspect...
Gallipoli
From 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peninsula. The Allied forces wanted...
Brave Volodymyr: The Story of Volodymyr Zelensky and the Fight for
From acclaimed author Linda Elovitz Marshall comes a picture book biography of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that highlights the importance of standing up for what one believes in, defending freedom...
Deceiving Hitler: Double-cross and Deception in World War II
During the Second World War the Allies controlled every active German agent in Britain. This placed Allied Intelligence services in a unique position. The Allies were able to feed spurious...
The History of Europe: From Ancient Civilizations to the Dawn of the
From Ancient Greece to the dawn of the 21st century, this text unravels all of the tightly woven social, cultural, economic and political strands of European history. It looks at...
Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple
Rudolph Hess's flight to Scotland in May 1941 remains one of the great unresolved mysteries of World War II. Did he come on Hitler's commission, or, as he always maintained,...
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western
2024 NAACP Image Awards Nominee: Outstanding Non-Fiction A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The...
Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion
This record of the collections of one of the world's great art museums has more than 300 colour reproductions, accompanied by a detailed commentary. Each of the 37 sections is...
Nelson's Victory
May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......
Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time....
Kill the Fuhrer: Section X and Operation Foxley
During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
A More Perfect Union: The Europe We Need
'Timely, necessary and impeccably researched . . . Required reading for anyone interested in Europe. And even more so for anyone interested in Britain' DAILY TELEGRAPH China's rise and Russian...
My Contrary Mary
Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary,...
Beaten Down By Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918
Beaten Down by Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 through the frenetic phases...
To Steal from Thieves
In this high-stakes heist novel, an alchemologist and a con man team up to steal a rare necklace-but complicated feelings of attraction and deception threaten to destroy everything and everyone...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......
Falling Sky: The gripping historical thriller from the Sunday Times
AD 265, Gaul - The Roman Empire is on the brink. Emperor Gallienus has amassed a huge army across the Alps to seize back the mountains from the usurper Postumus....
Primitive Rebels
Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, PRIMITIVE REBELS , he shines a light on the...
Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing - and Britain could do better
In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would...
The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War
This is a comprehensive guide to World War II. More than 1600 detailed entries - together with 15 maps and a series of front-by-front chronologies - cover every aspect of...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...
The Great War Handbook
Geoff Bridger's The Great War Handbook answers many of the basic questions newcomers ask when confronted by this enormous and challenging subject - not only what happened and why, but...
