Sort by:
48 Products Found
February 2024
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
Snowing in Bali
Author: Kathryn Bonella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and...
Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe
Author: N. t. Wright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Today's leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and acclaimed author N. T. Wright returns with a collection of pastoral...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
$12.00
Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony
Author: Darren Byler (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated...
The Queer Bible
Author: Jack Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written...
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
Author: Dick Lehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of...
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader
Author: Penny A. Weiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
Author: Kamala Tiyavanich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and...
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
Author: Sissela Bok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders,...
How to Outwit Aristotle: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy
Author: Peter Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 How to know that you exist. How to be an object of desire. How to think like a bat. How to...
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It
Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and hisallies fought to reverse the outcome of...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Author: Aleksandr Fursenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business
Author: Lucy Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist. If you...
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets
Author: Marcia Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received...
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Author: Manata Hashemi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have...
Sir William Glasgow: Soldier, Senator and Diplomat
Author: Peter Edgar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Sir William Glasgow is a fascinating and valuable book that tells the story of this once famous figure: his early service...
Virgins: A Cultural History
Author: Anke Bernau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Virgins haunted the medieval imagination; in those days only virgins were thought capable of taming a unicorn. To the most devout...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort
Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
Feminine Mysteries in the Bible: The Soul Teachings of the Daughters of the Goddess
Author: Ruth Rusca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 An exploration of the repressed, esoteric feminine mysteries in the Bible through the lives of four women, all archetypes...
In Days to Come: A New Hope for Israel
Author: Avraham Burg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born in 1955, Avraham Burg witnessed firsthand many of the most dramatic and critical junctions in Israeli history. Here he chronicles...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better
Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely sad -...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime
Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...
Inseparable across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo
Author: Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A true story of love, separation, and rediscovery in a time of cultural and spiritual upheaval in Tibet. In the...
Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Author: Ralph Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent...
Comics and Stuff
Author: Henry Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Author: Robert B. Zoellick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Author: Darrell Bricker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians
Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Author: David N. Livingstone (Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, The Queen's University Belfast) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
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...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 235 Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his...
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...