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Combining the latest scholarship with a highly readable style, Kathryn Tempest looks at Cicero the politician and orator, and the private man. On the back ...
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from ...
The phenomenal bestselling biography, now for the first time in a single-volume paperback
Now at last in a single, abridged paperback - the definitive life.
Ian ...
As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market ...
In the latter years of the fourteenth century a child was born, so unimportant that even his exact date of birth is unknown. Yet before ...
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different ...
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.
Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes ...
An A-Z encyclopedia of the classical myths and great mythical figures of ancient Greece and Italy, this title features over 160 entries describing the central ...
The critically acclaimed biography of Lenin by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Trotsky, Stalin and Comrades.
Lenin is a ...
The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have ...
The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind, offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the ...
Katherine Swynford sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court? This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating ...
The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in ...
In the 1850s, stealing the secret of China tea was like stealing the secret formula for Coca-Cola
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant ...
The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today.
In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he ...
