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A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
At the ...
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle - and the renewed threat of invasion by ...
This impressive, newly-updated encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of aircraft carrier development and a well-documented visual directory of more than 150 of the world ...
A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian
The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human ...
A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.
Once described ...
Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldiers' letters in a fresh and captivating narrative ...
Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans ...
Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained ...
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione ...
Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times- do you know what is at stake in Ukraine?
On ...
A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians
In the fourth century ...
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide
A story of staggering scope ...
This book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England ...
For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain ...
Exploring practices such as Songlines, architecture and design, land management, astronomy, botany and law, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the ...
