History

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...

Author: Mary M. Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself,...

Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...

Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...

Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This "elegant and sobering" (New York Times) history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the...

Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...

Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...

Author: Harry Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.'...

Author: Margaret Kimball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the...

Author: Penny Wincer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A beautiful and important book that is both deeply engaging and usefully practical. I loved it.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'An insightful and...

Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...

Author: Matt S Meier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican...

Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...

Author: Gordon Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Best of Both Worlds is the true story of how childhood misery and trauma helped Gordon Smith discover a gift...

Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly...

Author: David Farber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events...

Author: Susan Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission:...

Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...

Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company...

Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...

Author: Gareth St Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all heard the phrase 'the moment when my life changed forever'. Some of us can even pinpoint it in our...

Author: Peter Bleksley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but...

Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...

Author: Elis James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Elis and John are my go-to place when I need a bloody good laugh. Properly funny!' Sarah Millican Comedians Elis James...

Author: Sir Richard Holmes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: **"Kirkus" Best Books of the Year (2013)****"Time Magazine" 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013****"The New Republic" Best Books of 2013** In...

Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life...

Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the maneuver warfare...

Author: Walter Rodney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of...

Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...

Author: Antonio Carluccio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Antonio Carluccio is a larger-than-life character who, over his 50-year career, has inspired thousands of people with his no-fuss Italian cooking...

Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...

Author: Big Sky Publishing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Celebrate the 100 year anniversary of RMC and discover the rich history of Duntroon with this superbly designed...

Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...

Author: Seth Cropsey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Timely and urgent, Mayday is a clarion call to action--before it's too late. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy...

Author: Glenn Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 306 The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck. THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR. THEIR STORIES...

Author: Adam Tooze (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction A...