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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Norway will lead you straight to the best attractions this breathtaking country has to offer. Explore Norway region by region, ...

Dispatches From The New Britain: A Slyly Funny And Compulsively Readable Portrait Of A Nation Finally Refurbished For The Twenty-first Century. Naughty Boys...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

Algernon Percy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 230-233) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

Discover the captivating history of Europe's second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times ...

The true story behind the award-winning movie of the same name, The King's Speech is written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue...

all The Mystery, Earthiness And Romance Of The Middle Ages Are Captured In This Panorama Of Everyday Life. The Evolving Concepts Of Intimacy Are Explored--...

Retraces Two Critical Centuries Of Middle Eastern History, Presents An Intriguing Chronicle Of The Crusades, And Offers Insights Into The Forces That Shape ...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In...

The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

Describes the activities on a medieval manor, including the role of peasants, farmers, tradespeople, women, and children.Categories: HistoryEurope

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s favorite, George Villiers, the first ...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

Drawing on his intermediate lectures, Michl (Colgate U.) boils macroeconomic theory down to the simplest mathematical models possible, using relatively easy...

Tourists Know Amsterdam As A Picturesque City Of Low-slung Brick Houses Lining Tidy Canals; Student Travelers Know It For Its Legal Brothels And Hash Bars; ...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

This study examines the Norman settlement of Anglo-Saxon England, that was begun before 1066 but which was made permanent by military conquest between 1066 ...

Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther bac...

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most ...

I. Parentage And Early Life, C. 1096-1135 -- Ii. The Succession, 1135-1136 -- Iii. Mistakes, 1136-1139 -- Iv. The Empress And Her Party, 1136-1140 -- V. Dis...

In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospog...

This volume contains the first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of...

* from USA. Will take 25-35 daysCategories: History EuropePortugal & Spain

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson made the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another countr...

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insigh...

This Book Is Not Only An Analysis Of Demographic And Political Realities In Europe, But Also An Eyewitness Account Of A Continent In Self-destruct Mode. It ...

"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at th...

Chronicles the life of the man whose accomplishments included his appointment as one of the three Supreme Allied Commanders of World War II, terms as last V...

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Ireland with this essential travel guide to this great island, designed to help you create you...

The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and...

This Book, A Chronicle Of The Early Sixteenth Century Creation Of The Waldseemuller Map Offers Insight Into How Monks, Classicists, Merchants, And Other Con...

On The Land Of His Ancestors In Scotland, A Young Farmer Struggles To Find A Balance Between Farming, The Conservation Of Wild, And Human Culture As He Esta...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsom...

In an age when so many people only look forward, THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE combines new and traditional approaches to the past that, combined with an interpret...

Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns hi...

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered i...

From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), he...

Since its first publication over thirty years ago, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present has offered students a concise and authoritative histor...

Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London duri...

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued wi...

Jeremy Black. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [292]-320) And Index.Categories: Engineering & TransportationEngineering