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That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Reformation in Nimes, 1530-1570
In this book, author Alan Tulchin breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nimes, the most Protestant town in...
Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861
Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC
The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of Antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History: 500 Preposterous Facts They Definitely Didn't Teach You in School
Turkeys used to be worshipped as gods? Bull$#*t! Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 world history facts that sound too absurd to be true.Knowledge is...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
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A Death in San Pietro: The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
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Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945
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From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim MurrayFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 261 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The History and Philosophy of Archeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking...
Captain James Cook
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American Politics: A Graphic History
Author: Laura LockerFormat: Paperback, 175mm x 255mm, 525g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2018Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams...
Speeches that Changed the World
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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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ENC OF GREAT IDEAS
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Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our Society
Author: Mattias HesserusFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 740g, 300 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives...
Obras Maestras del Museo Britanico
Author: J.D. HillFormat: Paperback, 215mm x 215mm, 960g, 288 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2013El Museo Britanico alberga varias de las colecciones mas extensas y magnificas del mundo, que...
Growth Recurring
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Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Author: Robert C DavisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 380g, 376 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis...
The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
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A Guest of the Emperor
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African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time
Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
Author: Caroline Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of...
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality
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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
Author: Hugh Cecil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 938 'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
Living in Hope and History
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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD
Policing the Big Apple is the story of America's largest and most celebrated law enforcement agency. The book covers the history of policing New York City from 1625 in then...
F**k You And Goodbye
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Sword and the Pen
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Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)
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