General History
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The History of Speed: The Quest to Go Faster, from the Dawn of the Motor Car to the Speed of Sound
$29.95 Read moreEver since we built machines that could transport us, there has been a desire to find ways to make them go faster. For some, going faster isn’t enough — they want to be the fastest. This book celebr
- Author: Roach, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0228103541
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$12.99 Read more– Marketing activity is focused on visibility in-store and online
– Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, national and regional magazines,
– Major focus on gift, travel, tourist sector
– M… [more below]- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1839647663
- Language: English
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The Emperors of Byzantium
$39.95 Read moreThe Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for eleven hundred years from the fourth to fifteenth centu
- Author: Lygo, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500023298
- Language: English
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The Castle: A History
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military- Author: Goodall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300251904
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of Western Sudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northen Nigeria
$34.95 Add to cartWhen Lady Lugard sat down to write A Tropical Dependency, it was not her intention to inspire generations of Africans to regain the independence of their countries. Lugard writes of slavery as though … [more below]
- Author: Lugard, Flora Shaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 093312192X
- Language: English
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If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, King of the Caribbean Pirates
$16.99 Read moreIn a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He d… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510772634
- Language: English
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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
$18.95 Read moreThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria’s long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his a
- Author: Aschheim, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1608012425
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
$19.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award
Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize
–Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naim- Author: Naimark, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292154
- Language: English
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A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland
$32.95 Add to cartAdapted from the BBC series, this anthology highlights important episodes of Irish history.
A sweeping, accessible history of Ireland adapted from Dr Jonathan Bardon’s BBC series.
This authoritative and… [more below]
- Author: Bardon, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0717190005
- Language: English
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
$25.00 Read more“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”–The Financial Tim… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0812980220
- Language: English
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Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
$23.95 Read moreThe second edition of Mark Abley’s acclaimed creative biography, revised and expanded with a new introduction by the author.
When he died in 1947, Duncan Campbell Scott was revered as one of his countr
- Author: Abley, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1738993329
- Language: English
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Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration
$26.99 Read moreThe subject of the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its integration into the Indian Union in 1962 is sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. What were the events that led to the thirty-si… [more below]
- Author: Faleiro, Valmiki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0670097926
- Language: English
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Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History
$34.95 Read moreA new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century
‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION’, Stuart Hall, author of The Hard- Author: Samuel, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 180429280X
- Language: English
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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
$34.00 Read moreReading has become a problem–not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion. The questions of how and what to read are not just matters o
- Author: Tichelkamp, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486738
- Language: English
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Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present
$35.00 Read moreWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This boo
- Author: Guiheux, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1509552499
- Language: English
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The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy’s Golden Age
$35.00 Read moreFollowing the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)–generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne’s War–a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as … [more below]
- Author: Travers, Len
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1594163987
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
$24.95 Read moreThe ‘Fabulous Flotilla’, called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all it
- Author: Strachan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1849955328
- Language: English
