History books

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This is the story of one of history's great events, the American Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the...  Read More >>

Half of the book is a detailed description, mainly told in the words of participants, of three battles fought over...  Read More >>

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This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different...  Read More >>

RAF pilot Leonard Cheshire's classic Second World War memoir of his first three years serving with Bomber Command....  Read More >>

If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer. -Providence Journal  Read More >>

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Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought...  Read More >>

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by...  Read More >>

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A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the Renaissance  Read More >>

Foucault and Family Relations analyzes notions of property in rural Australia during the colonial period and how...  Read More >>

This book argues that some of the most important deviants have been at the forefront of positive social change and...  Read More >>

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In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Whitehead and Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims of the psychology...  Read More >>

From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests...  Read More >>

A sharp, concise examination of America's relationship with the world from the founding to the present.  Read More >>

A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history...  Read More >>

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The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history,...  Read More >>

The town of Reading began as Lynn Village in 1639, when a four-mile grant for an 'inland plantation' that included...  Read More >>

A collection of writings by papal advisor and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), including letters, treatises,...  Read More >>

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution?...  Read More >>

This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observation of recent...  Read More >>