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Romans and Barbarians
A study of the clash between the Roman Empire and the barbarians beyond its imperial frontiers from the viewpoints of four of the major ethic groups on the borders of...
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to...
Njuta: Enjoy, Delight In: The Swedish Art of Savoring the Moment
Do you aspire to live a more peaceful, intentional life of mindfulness, positivity, and gratitude Njuta (pronounced "nyutah"), which means "enjoy" or "delight in," is the Swedish art of savoring...
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
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...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
The Bolero School: An Illustrated History of the Bolero, the Seguidillas and the Escuela Bolera
This is a book for both ballet and Spanish dancers. It is a journey through the history of the fascinating country of Spain with its vibrant culture and people. It...
The Cursed Friend
An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel...
Italy Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by Italia
An elegant collection of over 100 recipes inspired by Italia.These signature drink recipes from Italy hotspots pay homage to this vibrant country. With over 100 recipes and dozens of bartender...
Rose Cocktails: A Collection of Classic and Modern Ros? Cocktails
With an elegant pink rose-foil hardcover, Rose Cocktails is an evocative collection of 60+ rose cocktail recipes perfect for any occasion all year round!It's always rose season! And this pleasantly...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
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...
So Great a Prince
Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
Fields of Battle
Author: Richard EvansFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914
Author: Michael CrasterFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months...
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Author: Nita TyndallFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 236g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the...
Cinnamon and Salt: Cicchetti in Venice: Small Bites From the Lagoon City
Author: Emiko DaviesFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 247mm, 940g, 240 pagesPublished: Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 2022Cinnamon and Salt is a collection of recipes, stories and photographs that invites you to beautiful...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen TaylorFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 400 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part...
Architecture of the Glyptotek
Author: Jannie Rosenberg BendsenFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 320mm, 1660g, 432 pagesPublished: Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2023The New Carlsberg Glyptotek was established by brewer Carl Jacobsen in 1897, as a venue where...
Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933
Author: Ralf BaumeisterFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 280mm, 1320g, 272 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2023Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the Spree and were present in...
Juergen Teller: Notes About My Work
Author: Juergen TellerFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 540g, 48 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2023"I never really think of anyone as models, even the models," Juergen Teller has said, and "Everything...
Pia Ferm (Bilingual edition): Bread and Butter
Author: Galerie Judith AndreaeFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 700g, 128 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022The first monograph by Swedish artist Pia Ferm provides a comprehensive overview of both her marble...
Francesco Clemente (Bilingual edition)
Author: Rafael JablonkaFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 285mm, 1160g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 860g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the...
Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures, Making Pictures
Author: Alberto VenzagoFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 320mm, 2120g, 264 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2021From portraits of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Penelope Cruz to a voodoo ceremony in Benin, from...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
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...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
Author: Fin Dwyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish...
The Tudor Kings and Queens: The Dynasty that Forged a Nation
Author: Alex Woolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British history. Beginning with...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In...
A History Of Scotland
Author: Neil Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures...
A Brief History of the Celts
Author: Peter Ellis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that...
How to Think Like Churchill
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
A Brief History of Henry VIII: King, Reformer and Tyrant
Author: Mr Derek Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES 'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY...
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
Author: Colin ElliottFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 328 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex....
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
Author: Alan PhilpsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 340g, 464 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2024'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Author: Damien LewisFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 300g, 416 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2019Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...