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A fully updated 10th anniversary edition of the SUNDAY TIMES No.1 Bestseller

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA ‘A master storyteller’ Sunday Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491225Author Shannon MonaghanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Now in its fourth edition, this highly successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have...

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic. The United States of 1797 faced enormous...

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184677Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 234g

Do you know everything there is to know about the Presidents of the United States? OH NO YOU DON'T! The people who have served as President of the United States of America are some of the most famous people on the planet. But how much do we really know...

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values,...

This is a political biography of William III (1650–1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the revolution of 1688–9. William III...

A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed to be produced in large numbers to a standardised pattern at an affordable price. This books examines the transition from traditional hand-craft methods to the beginnings of mechanised...

This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created...

Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase "rule of law" to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is that good? Even in Aristotle's time, there was no agreement on either its nature, and on whether it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385550413Author H. W. BrandsFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341081Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504098441Author Daniel P MannixFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150174Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for...

How Jefferson and Madison ensured religious freedom in the United States Thomas Jefferson considered the establishment of religious freedom as a governing principle in the United States to be one of the great accomplishments of his life. It was not his...

Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of...

Major interdisciplinary study of medieval church porches, bringing out their importance and significance. The church porches of medieval England are among the most beautiful and glorious aspects of ecclesiastical architecture; but in comparison with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161635632Author Sydney ToothFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803902Author Maegan Parker BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569028681Author Bruce TwymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed...

In this book, illustrated with over 120 images, Pete London examines the hisotry of the Irish Air Wars.Book InformationISBN 9781802828627Author Pete LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375224Author Edward BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the...

The church of Notre-Dame is a forgotten masterpiece, its past glory ruthlessly suppressed. The crusaders had brought back eastern techniques to transform Notre-Dame into a beacon of mystical exploration. They longed to join the angels in passionate union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499208Author Deborah SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Across the 19th century, maritime globalization expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace, transforming transport and communications over the seas into oceanic networks at a planetary scale. These networks shaped culture in its most expansive sense,...

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war against one’s neighbors. Perhaps because these...

The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and...

By uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlighting colleges that proliferated the area in the 19th...