General History
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
$23.99 Read moreAN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Fig- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062624
- Language: English
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
$27.95 Read moreIf we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthrough
- Author: Stein, James D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888487
- Language: English
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
$23.95 Add to cartA chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men tort… [more below]
- Author: Spitz, Vivien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591810329
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
$31.95 Read more***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***
During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba – which t
- Author: Allan, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0745342914
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
$30.00 Read moreFrom the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On th… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160182
- Language: English
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A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
$12.99 Add to cartA unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child’s survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them- Author: Rosenberg, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 180096112X
- Language: English
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México, Manual de Usuario / Mexico, User Manual
$17.95 Read morePor qué eres asÃ, México? Quién te hizo tanto daño? Preguntas de esta naturaleza requieren delicados estudios socio-antropológicos para perfilar respuestas adecuadas. Pero como en el paÃs nad… [more below]
- Author: Torres, Chumel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 6073811152
- Language: Spanish
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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world’s population. The… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jackson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199605416
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Scotland
$14.95 Read moreThe broad sweep of Scotland’s story, both past and present, is chronicled by one of the country’s best historians. Andrew Fisher begins with Scotland’s first people and their culture and ends with Dev… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566567564
- Language: English
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
$19.95 Add to cart“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” –Bill Bryson
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter M
- Author: Palin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771645725
- Language: English
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
$29.99 Add to cartEmpires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of m… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199892261
- Language: English
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The Crimean War: A History
$26.99 Read moreFrom “the great storyteller of modern Russian historians” (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nigh- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002524
- Language: English
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Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
$22.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness
The 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely- Author: Anziska, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202451
- Language: English
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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent
$14.99 Read moreTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDERThe true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.
He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a ma
- Author: Fraser, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 000722950X
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
$23.99 Add to cartThe death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the … [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325419
- Language: English
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
“Holy War brings compassion, objec- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721404
- Language: English
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
