\nThe story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England\'s most distinguished man of letters\n…

Looks at the tumultuous history of the Euro, its status in global economics and politics, and the pressures that present…

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\nA lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city\n…

\nA powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners…

Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.…

An anthology of Ancient Egyptian literature, revised to offer fresh translations of all the texts as well as some 25 new…

Drawing on contemporary memoirs, diaries and letters, this book explores what actually happened in battle in Napoleonic…

A history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, this work surveys a millennium of warfare…

A vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood…

William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) was Elizabeth I's closest adviser. This revealing biography shows, the driving…

Offering an account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide, this book includes a preface that takes the story up to 2008…

\nAn inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder-told through the words of Bin Laden and those in his…

• Rok vydání 2022

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\nInclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring…

\nA moving, deeply researched account of survivors\' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult…

\nA major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the…

\nA vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable…

\nA thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines\n…

An accessible survey on a genius artist, published to accompany the 500th anniversary of Bosch's death…

Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital,…

Presenting an environmental history of China, this book is based on literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and…

Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in…

Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth…

An illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art…

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest - and largest - collections of American folk art.…

Looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious…

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\nThe dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World…

\nAn incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond\n…

\nA myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers-and our abject…

• Rok vydání 2020

• Rok vydání 2020

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist…

Describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony - a work by…

A biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music,…

An analysis of the earliest extant documents of Christianity - the letters of Paul - to describe the tensions and texture of…

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as…

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An account of Richard the Lionheart's reign. John Gillingham scrutinizes the king's fluctuating reputation over the…

In this biography of Henry VI, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent and…

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his…

\nThe gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to…

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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of the Club, a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers…