First published in 1955, this guide by British actor Alec Clunes, father of Martin, includes a bibliography not only of…

\nUsing case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of…

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A brick smashes the window of a family-run Internet café in central London. A message comes with it: "Don't Stop Now!".…

• Rok vydání 2006

A hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards America. As the hurricane passes through…

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Diamonds smuggled from the bloody civil-war zones of Africa and traded illegally for weapons are known as 'blood diamonds'.…

The Great War of 1914-18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which…

This book encompasses experiences of the British Empire such as life in Nigeria before the arrival of the British, through…

In this book respected Reformation scholar and medievalist J. P. Whitney gives an overview of the study of ecclesiastical…

The translated extracts in Livy: Stories of Rome are linked by commentaries which continue the narrative and discuss points…

Fully revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this text helps students…

\nThis book has been hailed as an authoritative and lively account of Thailand\'s political, economic, social and cultural…

\nAllan Mazur\'s book tells the appealing history of the scientific \'discovery\' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the…

This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the…

\nHow did the Romans handle risk, from uncertainty about food supply and dangerous travel to survival itself? Modern risk…

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as…

This book challenges and enriches existing knowledge about law, human rights, and childhood, in and beyond the…

Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

Originally published in 1913, this text book will be of value to those interested in the role physicians have played in…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

\nThis provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the \'information revolution\' over the period 1450-1700,…

\nAimed at senior undergraduate Latin students and professional scholars, this edition provides help with the linguistic…

This textbook teaches Hittite grammar in stages, using genuine material throughout, and is the first to introduce the…

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A magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by an award-winning author.…

Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead…

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism,…

\nIn this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was…

How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.…

Originally published in 1914, this book contains an illustrated story of life in a provincial French town in the early…

This concise 1938 book by respected art historian William George Constable looks at art history through the lens of…

This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to…

Originally published in 1921, this volume contains the full version of La virt sconosciuta by the Italian literary figure…

Originally published in 1936, this book contains an illustrated biography in German of Martin Luther. The text is…

Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869-1957) was a British economist and statistician. Originally published in 1915, this book…

Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon…

\nThe first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present…

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It…

\nMany - perhaps most - people have an interest in terrorism: its causes, nature and consequences; its effects on their…

First published in 1913, during a period when tuberculosis remained a massive problem in terms of British public health,…

An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3.…

Sir William Milbourne James (1881-1973) was a British Naval commander and author who played a key role in the work of the…