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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Ever ything in It
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions...
The Penguin History of the World
6th edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World.
For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human...
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
"Shocking. Revelatory. Compelling. A truly authentic and riveting read. A milestone in WWII and Holocaust history."-- Damien Lewis, author: The Nazi Hunters
A harrowing, beautifully written and extremely well-researched account of a little-known aspect of the Holocaust. Patricia Posner's...
by Kim MacQuarrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador...
The March of Folly
From Troy to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.
Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples,...
The Normans
From Raiders to Kings
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
There is much more to the Norman story than the Battle of Hastings. These descendants of the Vikings who settled in France, England, and Italy - but were not strictly French, English, or Italian - played a large role in creating the modern world. They were the success story of the Middle Ages; a footloose...
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers
The history you weren't taught in school
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers unveils the history you were never taught at school. With a breath-taking sweep spanning Rome to the modern day, popular historian and author Dominic Selwood challenges the traditional version of some of the best-known events of the past. From ancient Christianity to the...
Pontifex Maximus
A Short History of the Popes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
“Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”
Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers
"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles...
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey.
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here...
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.
In Nonzero:...
The Last Days of Socrates
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Socratic dialogue is a genre of prose literary works developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BC, preserved today in the dialogues of Plato in which characters discuss moral and philosophical problems, illustrating a version of the Socratic method. Socrates is often the main character.
This...
The Demon Under the Microscope
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics....
Worlds at War
The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.
Worlds At War begins in the ancient world,...