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From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexander the Great
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Author: Michael Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 294 A History Channel consultant explores how, in less than 100 years, ancient Greece went from a democratic city-state to an monarchical...
Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
The End Is Always Near: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today
Author: Dan Carlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons...
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation
Author: David Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
Photo Nomad
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
Anna Comnena: A Study
Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR...
A Private War
Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
In America
Author: Geert Mak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America,...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...
The True History of Chocolate
Author: Sophie D. Coe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Chocolate - 'the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is...
Colony:Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars: Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars
Author: Tha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: It is now over 250 years since James Cook and his crew set sail in the Endeavour to explore the Pacific. In 1770...
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
Author: Michael J. Benton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'If you want to know how we know what we know about dinosaurs, read this book!' Steve Brusatte 'I defy...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust
Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
Author: Mary M. Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself,...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
Between the Wars
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Author: Philip Ziegler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 254 At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you...
People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
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Author: Michael Foss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general,...
We Germans
Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
A Warning
Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its...
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
Fish and Chips: A History
Author: Panikos Panayi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Along with London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. In this book,...
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
Author: Ruth Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Every age and every social strata has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the...
North Pole: Nature and Culture
Author: Michael Bravo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's...
Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography
Author: Mario Liverani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts from various regions of the Ancient Near East. The...
The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
Author: Daniel Jutte (Jutte) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed...
The Other Hoffmann Sister
Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Charles Darwin
Author: Anita Croy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Charles Darwin pioneered a theory of evolution that changed the way we see the natural world and the progression of species....
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
The Conquest of Gaul
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
Dance Your Troubles Away
Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
Schadenfreude, A Love Story
Author: Rebecca Schuman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 You know that feeling when you catch the elevator but don't hold it for the person behind you? Seeing Lindsay Lohan...
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...
Forced to Flee: Refugee Children Drawing on their Experiences
Author: UNHCR Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Refugee children explain in their own words and pictures their thoughts, feelings and experiences about having to flee from their home countries....
A Rich and Fertile Land: A History of Food in America
Author: Bruce Kraig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A Rich and Fertile Land investigates the history of food in America, where it comes from and how it has changed...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...