History

Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and...

Author: Chongda Cai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...

Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...

Author: Alan Feuer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, El Chapo, from the New York Times reporter whose...

Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 With a new introduction. One of Flavorwire's 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time. Meghan Daum is one of the most...

Author: Douglas Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program,...

Author: Caitlin Brodnick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 After watching too many family members die of cancer, at age 28, public speaker and comedian Caitlin Brodnick was...

Author: Michelle Mone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Michelle's journey to the top hasn't been easy. Born in the east end of Glasgow, Michelle left school at the age of...

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...

Author: Esther Schor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize In 1887, Ludwig...

Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new...

Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...

Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...

Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The groundbreaking autobiography of the teenage boy who was born a girl, which is also a major documentary Brought...

Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...

Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...

Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...

Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...

Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...

Author: Leah McGrath Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington...

Author: Terry Deary Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks? Don't bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt...

Author: Charlie English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions...

Author: Elaine Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one...

Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...

Author: Nigel Ely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war 'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28...

Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...

Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...

Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 WELCOME TO UHTRED'S FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an increasing...

Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland....

Author: McCall, Jeremiah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps...

Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...

Author: Matthew D. O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions...

Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...

Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern...

Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...

Author: Ibn Qutaybah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political unrest...

Author: Dayanna Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How was the North Atlantic settled? How did the distinct cultures of medieval Iceland and Greenland come to be? Viking Nations...

Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...

Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...

Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...

Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...

Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using...

Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...

Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A startlingly original new look at Shelley, a stunning work of scholarship and imagination by one of the most remarkable non-fiction...

Author: Tom Bower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since...

Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...