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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
20th century
Written by an author who rose from military officer to administration insider, this is a ...
It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy ...
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range ...
A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the ...
A history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 1915 also traces America's effort to assist the Armenian people, citing ...
Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the ...
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five ...
This book presents the first biography written in English of the famous Babylonian lawgiver, King Hammurabi, who ruled from 1792 to 1750 BC. It presents ...
