General History
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
$20.00 Read more“Mr. Cartledge’s command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive.” —Wall Street Journal
“An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758551
- Language: English
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Outside the Gate: The True Story of a British Home Child in Canada
$24.95 Read moreBetween 1869 and 1948, Britain sent more than 100,000 “home children ” to Canada to work as indentured farmers and domestics. They were promised a bright future in the land of opportunity, and some ma… [more below]
- Author: Newall, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1988025826
- Language: English
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Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScotland’s past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key themes from more than 1,000 years of Scotland’s very real an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Houston, Rab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019923079X
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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Flower Fables
$5.99 Read moreThis is a nice collection of fairy tales that is sure to please young readers and the adults reading to them alike. The writing is very beautiful and the book contains several gorgeous illustrations t
- Series: Dover Children’s Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 486793893
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who built the Colosseum or when Ro
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500289891
- Language: English
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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
$21.00 Add to cartErica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast er… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721754
- Language: English
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0553385666
- Language: English
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Key West
$23.99 Read moreKey West’s free-spirited ambiance and magnificent coral reefs help to create a unique and historic legacy and much more than a vacation destination.
For centuries, explorers and adventurers, immigrants
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Homan, Lynn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0738506648
- Language: English
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Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
$27.99 Read moreFollowing up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, William Dever here reconstructs the practice of religion in ancient Israel from the bottom up. Archae… [more below]
- Author: Dever, William G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0802863949
- Language: English
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
$29.95 Read moreThis poignant selection of artifacts–and their stories–from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day’s experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenwald, Alice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0847841332
- Language: English
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Lost Civilizations: Reveal the Secrets of Yesterday’s World
$9.98 Read moreA surprising number of amazing civilizations have risen and fallen in the course of human history. Come explore them in Lost Civilizations!
- Civilizations from across the globe: Africa, the Americas, A
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1639383069
- Language: English
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Wisdom from the Ancients
$25.00 Read moreA compilation of ancient wisdom sourced from ancient and medieval philosophers.
Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to t- Author: Swain, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1851246142
- Language: English
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
$23.00 Read more“An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today.” —Daily Express (UK)
In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the- Series: History of England #1
- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037557
- Language: English
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
$21.00 Read moreLike Winchester’s Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel c- Author: Klingaman, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042755
- Language: English
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Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia de Los Templarios
$13.95 Read more- Author: Fernandez Munoz, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8411314030
- Language: Spanish
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Mementoes of the English Martyrs: For Every Day of the Year
$21.95 Read moreFr. Henry Sebastian Bowden wrote this powerful book so we will never forget the sacrifices of those martyrs who preserved and bequeathed to us our Catholic Faith.
The heroic witness of the English mart
- Author: Bowden, Henry Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 164413778X
- Language: English
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers
$18.00 Read moreA new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, th
- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 162040592X
- Language: English
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Holocaust Chronicle
$29.98 Add to cartThe Holocaust Chronicle, written and fact-checked by top scholars, recounts the long, complex, anguishing story of the most terrible crime of the 20th century.
- The mission of The Holocaust Chronicle is
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1680228323
- Language: English
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Balkan Wars (1912-13)
$27.00 Read moreOn-the-spot analysis of national and social conflicts in the Balkans, written 80 years ago, sheds light on the conflicts shaking these countries today.
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 714
- Publish Date: January 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0873489071
- Language: English
