History books

Iron Maiden is 50 years old, a half-century of existence and 17 studio albums with varied lyrics, often dark. The...  Read More >>

Perched on steep cliffs where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers collide, Chongqing is unlike any other city in China-or...  Read More >>

A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that ""explains the void"" (Politico) at the center...  Read More >>

During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime...  Read More >>

The contribution of Commodore Michael Clapp has been overlooked when compared with the other senior Falklands commanders...  Read More >>

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La historia explora la compleja figura de Hedetet, una diosa escorpión del Antiguo Egipto, cuya presencia se teje...  Read More >>

Why do unsolved mysteries remain unsolved? Because we ask the wrong questions. We look for madness, ghosts, and...  Read More >>

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The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives...  Read More >>

More than a century of resilience and innovation shaped the largest shipyard on the West Coast. Through wars, economic...  Read More >>

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Esta obra explora la figura polifacética de Maahes, el dios león egipcio de la guerra y la protección, desde sus...  Read More >>

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The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long...  Read More >>

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muammad to the birth of the modern era. This...  Read More >>

Buildings that housed the institutions and businesses that formed the support network for Irish people, many of...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga's First Century tells the story of the artists...  Read More >>

This book confronts, and redresses, the remarkable lack of understanding and knowledge about Myanmar, particularly...  Read More >>

Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical...  Read More >>

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to...  Read More >>

Fortissimi and validissimi , the strongest and bravest, was how Roman writers described the Batavians. Natives of...  Read More >>

Schon kurz nach seinem Tod sind erste gedruckte Nachrichten uber das Leben und Wirken des Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563)...  Read More >>

Der revolutionare Aufbruch von 1989 hat Fragen an Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft gestellt, die immer aktueller...  Read More >>