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The Deals That Made the World
Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
"Excellent. ... Impressive." —Financial Times
An award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world
We tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we...
Naked Airport
A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ...
Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges...
by Vanessa R. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
A lively and informative short volume that shows that France is not a faded glory but rather a place that has defined and shaped the key issues of our contemporary world, such as democracy and universal human rights, the emergence of a culture of consumerist spectacle, the tensions between nationalism and contemporary multiculturalism, and the role of religion in the modern state.
History of Modern Russia
from tsarism to the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven...
A Crime So Monstrous
Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.
As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch...
Dirigible Dreams
The Age of the Airship
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Here is the story of airships—manmade flying machines without wings—from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated...
by Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are...
Hashemites
The Dream of Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of wartime expediency, double-dealing...
Coronel and Falklands 1914
Duel in the South Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas – Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern...
The Soldiers' Tale
Bearing Witness to a Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps,...
Adam Ferguson
His Social and Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this...
A Dance with the Dragon
The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking...
High Minds
The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.
Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived...
Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography
The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed.
Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat,...