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  • The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Old Ways

    A Journey on Foot

    Series Book 3 - Landscapes
    From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinkingIn this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle earth and the sun in archaeological perspectives

    The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

    by James Fell ...
    Sh!t happens. Every day.Mae West was sent to jail for “corrupting the morals of youth” with her first Broadway play. When participation in the Hitler Youth became mandatory in Germany, groups of teen “pirates” rebelled. Muhammad Ali refused to “drop bombs and bullets on brown people” in Vietnam. A dog sled relay carried life-saving medicine 674 miles through –50 temperatures to rescue children ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

    What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Terry & Me

    The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

    by Bill Vigars ...
    There has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there’s never been a story quite like The Marathon of Hope.A twenty-two-year-old cancer survivor and amputee, Terry set out from St. John’s Newfoundland in April 1980, aiming to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. His first months on the road in Atlantic Canada and Quebec were not only physically taxing—he ran the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Caucasus

    A History

    by James Forsyth ...
    A fascinating new survey of the Caucasus which provides a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed a hub of intersecting routes of migration, invasion, trade and culture and a geographical bridge between Europe and Asia, subject to recurring ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Érase una vez México 1

    De las cavernas al virreinato

    Esta es la historia de un grupo de hombres que comenzó en las cavernas y luego de miles de años, encontraron una señal: un águila posada en un nopal devorando una serpiente. Es también el recuento del nacimiento y caída de la gran Tenochtitlán, símbolo hegemónico de uno de los imperios con mayor influencia en la América precolombina. Y es la crónica del surgimiento de la Nueva España con su ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Running the World

    The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power

    Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so many. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are without question the most powerful committee in the history of the world. Yet, in many respects, they are among the least understood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 一位大陸作家的文革記憶──訣別史達林模式及其他

    by 李冰封 ...
    本書是從一九七九年至今的作者散文隨筆集。全書分七個部分:一、痛定思痛憶往事;二、閱讀心得與偶感;三、教育警鐘;四、序跋選粹;五、遊蹤心影;六、藝海拾貝;七、生活情趣,紀述了關於歷史、懷念人物與反右派和文化大革命有關的文章。真實的反應了大陸一些飽受滄桑的知識份子對現實狀況獨具一格的觀察與思考 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Bradshaws of Harniss

    THE BRADSHAWS OF HARNISS is a classic Cape Cod tale - of a peppery old Cape Codder called back into the saddle because his grandson has gone to war... Seldom, if ever before, has Joe Lincoln fastened upon a more likely plot or a more appealing group of characters. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 1915 - Çanakkale'nin Gizlenen Gerçeği

    by Burak Turna ...
    Series series 1909 Hakikati
    1909 Hakikati'nin ortaya çıkmasıyla Çanakkale Savaşı'na dair tüm bilinenler değişti...Burak Turna'nın araştırmaları tüm bilinenleri değiştiriyor, 100 yıldır gizli kalan inanılmaz gerçekleri su yüzüne çıkarıyor...Eğer bu kitabı okumadıysabız, sakın 1915'le ilgili bildiklerinizin gerçek olduğunu düşünmeyin. Kitaptaki kanıtlar ve bu kanıtların incelenmesi tüm bildiklerinizi değiştirecek.Eğer 1909 ... Read more

    $13.14 USD

  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

    The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

    by Andrew Lawler ...
    Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken.In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler “opens a window on civilization, evolution, capitalism, and ethics” (New York) with a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bizarre History

    Strange Happenings, Stupid Misconceptions, Distorted Facts and Uncommon Events

    by Joe Rhatigan ...
    This is history served up high-octane, with all of the fun and none of the boredom. It's not about memorizing lists of dates or names, or remembering which general won what battle. Instead, BIZARRE HISTORY merrily digs up the scandals, the strangeness, and the scintillating details that illuminate personalities, events, and real life. Think of it not as a textbook, but as history’s juicy ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Une journée particulière

    Series series Tempus
    Vingt événements décisifs – Vingt dirigeants emblématiques.Franz-Olivier Giesbert et Claude Quétel nous proposent de découvrir vingt journées décisives qui ont bouleversé la vie de personnalités de premier plan avant de changer l'histoire du monde.Ils, nous proposent, une traversée du temps du franchissement du Rubicon par César aux attentats du 11-Septembre auxquels dû faire face George Bush en ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Victorian Internet

    The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

    by Tom Standage ...
    A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sukhoi Aircraft's 1963 Proposed Jet VTOL Design The Stunningly Modern

    by David Myhra ...
    In the early 1960s, Sukhoi’s OKB “skunk works” had a very capable aviation designer, highly interested in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flying machines. Most of the world’s aviation companies had pretty much given up on VTOLs. This was pre-computer days and landing a VTOL manually proved extremely difficult. Sukhoi OKB chief designer, R.G. Martirosov’s “Barrage-1” shape was to be very ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Un fascisme roumain

    Le troisième fascisme dans l'Europe de l'entre-deux-guerres, juste après le nazisme et le fascisme italien. Une réalité méconnue.Le fer de lance de ce fascisme porte le nom d'une organisation de masse dite la légion de l'Archange Michel. Créée en 1927, elle est aussi connue sous la dénomination de sa première façade politique, la Garde de fer. Ce mouvement légionnaire incarne un fascisme ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Agriculture in World History

    Series series Themes in World History
    Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmers and urban societies from the ancient world to the 21st century.From its origins, civilization has depended on the food, fiber, and other goods produced by farmers. This book illustrates how urban societies both exploited and supported farmers, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

    "A brilliant and readable book…a rich study of humankind's restless spirit." —Candice Millard, New York Times Book ReviewGreeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The 900 Days

    The Siege Of Leningrad

    The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD