History

Along the way, Kate Colquhoun asks and answers a fascinating range of questions from the weighty to the lighthearted. Did the Romans use pepper? How did the...

This stimulating book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the sec...

A Modern Mystic Speaks Christina Gallagher, a humble County Mayo housewife, is a prophetic figure for one times. She speaks about the warnings she has rec...

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. ...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beg...

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and di...

This Latest Addition To The Landmark Penguin History Of Europe Series Is A Fascinating Study Of 16th And 17th Century Europe And The Fundamental Changes Whi...

Want To Impress Your Buddies At The Bar? Need To Think Of Something Interesting To Do At The Next Family Gathering? Want To Learn A Bunch Of Random Facts Ab...

Words are the strongest thing in the World The words that you use can put you at the top of the world or keep you down. Many people have been slave of their...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

The Previous Edition Has Been Entirely Updated, With New Contributions Replacing Older Ones. A Distinctive Characteristic Of This Anthology Is The Range Of ...

In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independ...

One of Britain’s most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: ...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's atten...

Narrating a Nation: Canadian History Pre-Confederation is a lively, narrative approach to pre-confederation history. Events are followed chronologically, fo...

John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the earl...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

He's been shot at and attacked by man-eating sharks. He's dodged flamethrowers in Vietnam and political bombshells back home. He's been targeted for assassi...

The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth Century Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, ...

Jack Leninger spent a year humping the boonies as a rifleman in the 4th Infantry Division. Through air strikes, firefights, and ambushes, he fought the gru...

Contains A Study Of Ancient Egypt, Greece, And Rome From 3200 B.c. To 600 A.d. And Discusses The Art, Architecture, Philosophy, Literature, And Religious Pr...

Yemen Is The Dark Horse Of The Middle East. Every So Often It Enters The Headlines For One Alarming Reason Or Another -- Links With Al-qaeda, Kidnapped West...

Examines The History, Art, Architecture, Languages, Literatures, Society, And Religion Of Biblical Israel And Early Judaism And Christianity. In The Beginni...

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. A worldwide bestseller published in countle...

some Schools Have Honor Codes.others Have Handbooks.themis Academy Has The Mockingbirds. themis Academy Is A Quiet Boarding School With An Exceptional Stu...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

Letters of Noteis a collection of over one hundred of the world's mostentertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website...

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill chal...

This new edition of a photographic history of World War II features 900 captioned images. It covers every major theatre of conflict and the people involved,...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

Documents The 1946 Survival Story Of Six Navy Officers Whose Martin Mariner Seaplane Crashed In The Antarctic During A White-out Snowstorm, Describing The H...

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporterCategories: Engineering & ...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold...

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

Presents An Intellectual History Of The West's Bias Against Tribalism That Explains How Acts Of War And Dispossession Have Been Justified In The Name Of Civ...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for ...

This is the complete saga of the pursuit for two of the world's greatest geographical prizes--the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic, the Pacific, and th...

Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung,...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

Displaying Gleaming New Shopping Centers And Refurbished Row Houses, Harlem Today Bears Little Resemblance To The Neighborhood Of The Midcentury Urban Crisi...

General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power unti...

Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and re...