A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency.…

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher,…

\nThe brilliance of a master historian shines through this personal account of a lifetime\'s work.\n…

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\nAfropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black.\n…

\nA renowned historian and Resistance fighter-later executed by the Nazis-gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell…

With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.…

Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world.…

Honouring the tradition of serving miyeokguk on birthdays and inspired by the lives of Korea''s haenyeo, this lovely picture…

\nAn entertaining and fascinating memoir of \"gifted storyteller\" (People) Ann Hood\'s adventurous years as a TWA flight…

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial…

Kniha 9780393307948 Search for the "Manchurian Candidate" John Marks…

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics…

This edition includes both part I and II of the drama. It represents a significant departure from its predecessor in terms…

Kniha 9780393059748 History of the Ancient World Susan Bauer…

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Beginning in the days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series - chronicles the contradictions of…

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A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's nimble gallop and brings an ancient epic to new life.…

\nRevealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally…

\nThis revision of the acclaimed and widely-assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass\' autobiography includes…

\nA definitive history of the race to unravel DNA\'s structure by one of our most prominent medical historians\n…

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\nAn urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines\n…

An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.…

Drawing on the greatest writers of its civilization, Hamilton vividly depicts the life and spirit of Rome.…

Separating historical fact from fantasy, the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century…

Tato kniha pojednává o jedné z klíčových bitev, která ovlivnila směřování Římské říše a evropské historie.…

A New York Times bestseller: This terrific new book . . . [explores] the `notion of whiteness,' an idea as dangerous as it…

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Extraordinary... seamless... astonishingly rich (Sverker Soerlin, Nature)-an eye-opening environmental history of the Far…

\nWith surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is…

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\nA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Book of the Day “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli\'s Secret is a…

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\nOne of TIME\'s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 One of BuzzFeed\'s Best Books of 2021 One of Vulture\'s Best Books of 2021…

\nThe text of Equiano\'s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.\n…

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Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic.-Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday…

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\nA fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history-and why they were all abandoned.\n…

Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist…

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\n\"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard.\" -Michael Dirda, Washington Post\n…

\nAn incisive biography of E.E. Cummings\' early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent…

A biography of one of America\'s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.…

\nThe first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our…

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\nSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation and their own…

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Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest . . . hardest form of war.-John Nagl, Wall Street Journal…

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From a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts thinking about America's founding period.…

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An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia and Iran…

\nHow Chinese migration to the world\'s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race\n…

A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen…