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In Exile from the Land of Snows
The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Tibet, “the roof of the world,” had been aloof and at peace for most of its 2,100 years. But in 1932, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, in his final testament, warned: “It may happen that here, in the center of Tibet, religion and government will be attacked both from without and from within.” By...
Game of Queens
The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period."--Alison Weir
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter...
Paralysed with Fear
The Story of Polio
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.
by Professor David Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Witchcraft haunts the Western imagination to this day, from Central Europe to Britain to North America. This book explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it (stressing the difference between the two), the sixteenthand seventeenth-century obsession that spawned witch-hunting, the...
by Bhikhu Parekh
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which...
How Could This Happen
Explaining the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Holocaust is the defining event of the twentieth century and perhaps all of modern history. Yet for too long, we have ignored the vital question of how and why such a monstrous event could have happened at all. Now, in How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the existing Holocaust...
John Locke: An Essay concerning Toleration
And Other Writings on Law and Politics, 1667-1683
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition of John Locke's Essay concerning Toleration and a number of other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Although Locke never published any of these works himself they are of very great interest for students of his intellectual...
by Lucy Wooding
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This new edition of Lucy Wooding’s Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Henry was a Renaissance prince whose Court dazzled with artistic display,...
Biafra's War 1967-1970
A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death.
Biafra’s war was modern Africa’s first extended conflict. It lasted...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Based on the most recent scholarship, this book provides students and interested lay readers with a basic introduction to key facts and current controversies concerning the Enlightenment.
• Provides the Enlightenment in various formats, thereby enabling students to better understand and fully...
by Paul S. Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Since the rise of the modern nation state in Europe, political leaders have had to cope with the problems of conspiracy and internal security. The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 is a study of the response made to these twin problems by the British central...
All Things Made New
The Reformation and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still...
The Age of Reformation
The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes.
In this book, Alec Ryrie...
Daughters of Ireland
The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune,...