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The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
"All stories begin with 'Once upon a ...
Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his ...
Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history ...
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against ...
Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations ...
The investigative journalist and author of Ari draws on interviews with Aristotle Onassis and his closest associates and family members to profile the feud between ...
'So Far and No Further!' Rhodesia's Bid for Independence during the Retreat from Empire 1959-1965
Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia ...
This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style ...
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different ...
Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
One of the most lavishly praised books of the year, Jenny Uglow's masterful history is a swarming, hugely-readable group portrait of the Lunar Society ...
2004 Massey Lectures series as broadcast on ABC radio The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption and technology, all ...
From the best-selling author of Drinking- A Love Story and Appetites- Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern ...
Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of ...
