World History

Front cover of Modernism by Peter Gay
Modernism - Peter Gay

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay (acclaimed cultural historian) traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.

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Front cover of Empire's Crossroads by Carrie Gibson
Empire's Crossroads - Carrie Gibson

Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present by Carrie Gibson unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands - largely independent, but often still in thrall to Europe and America's insatiable desire for tropical luxuries.

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Front cover of Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
Double Entry - Jane Gleeson-White

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses.

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Spine of Rivers in the Desert by Nelson Glueck
Rivers in the Desert - Nelson Glueck

Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev by Nelson Glueck tells the story of the discovery, excavation and mapping of hundreds of lost settlements in the Israeli desert know as the Negev. He tells how he, Bible in hand, dug the evidence out of the arid desert sands to tell of flourishing civilizations dating back to the fourth millennium BC.

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Front Covers of Apollo 11, the NASA Mission Reports edited by Robert Godwin
Apollo 11, the NASA Mission Reports - Robert Godwin

Apollo 11, the NASA Mission Reports, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Robert Godwin have been compiled from the NASA archives. Volume 1 contains all the technical information of the mission. Volume 2 is the technical crew debriefing done immediately after the flight. Both books contain a CD ROM with images and MPEG video.

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Front cover of The Gods of Olympus by Barbara Graziosi
The Gods of Olympus - Barbara Graziosi

The Gods of Olympus: A History by Barbara Graziosi is an elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present day The gods of Olympus are the most colourful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly.

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Front Cover of Chasing the Sun by Jonathan Green
Chasing the Sun - Jonathan Green

Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathan Green is an immensely readable and fascinating history of the dictionary. The author traces the story from the first lexicon created in 2340 BC in Sumeria to the pinnacle of the Oxford English Dictionary and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork. Illustrated.

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Front Cover of Death of a Revolutionary by Richard L Harris
Death of a Revolutionary - Richard L Harris

Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission by Richard L Harris is a probing account into the life and death of South American revolutionary icon Che Guevara and this revised edition includes a new chapter on the effects of his legacy today.

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Front cover of The Last Slave Market by Alastair Hazell
The Last Slave Market - Alastair Hazell

The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade by Alastair Hazell is an extraordinary and controversial book which brings Dr John Kirk's years in Zanzibar to life. The horrors of the overland passage from the interior, and the Zanzibar slave market itself, are vividly described, together with Kirk's final, bitter conflict with Livingstone.

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Front cover of 1913 by Florian Illies
1913 - Florian Illies

1913: The year before the storm by Florian Illies is a witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments and is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility.

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Front cover of Nehru on Gandhi by The John Day Company
Nehru on Gandhi - The John Day Company

Nehru on Gandhi: A selection, arranged in the order of events, from the writings and speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru by The John Day Company is an anthology of Nehru's written recollections of Mohandas K. Gandhi, published shortly after Gandhi's assassination in 1948

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Front Cover of Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Modern Times - Paul Johnson

Modern Times: A history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000 by Paul Johnson is a fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history which covers the great events, ideas, and personalities of the six decades following the end of World War I, and offers a full-scale if controversial - analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading.

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Front cover of Bosworth 1485 by Michael Jones
Bosworth 1485 - Michael Jones

Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones rewrites this landmark event in English history. He shifts our perspective of its heroes and villains and puts Richard firmly back into the context of his family and his times.

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Front Cover of World Order by Henry Kissinger
World Order - Henry Kissinger

World Order by Henry Kissinger makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft.

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Front cover of What? by Mark Kurlansky
What? - Mark Kurlansky

What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky is a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history?

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Front cover of War and Gold by Kwasi Kwarteng
War and Gold - Kwasi Kwarteng

War and Gold: A Five-hundred-year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng  reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold.

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Front cover of Severed by Frances Larson
Severed - Frances Larson

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson is about the fascination we have with heads, ours and others. Over the centuries, human heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums.

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Front Cover of Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev
Tigress of Forli - Elizabeth Lev

Tigress of Forli: The Life of Caterina Sforza by Elizabeth Lev shows how between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Caterina Sforza's life crossed the firmament of Italy's High Renaissance like a shooting star.

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Front cover of The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau
The Nazis Next Door - Eric Lichtblau

The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau is the shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis.

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Front cover of Sincerity by R Jay Magill Jr
Sincerity - R Jay Magill Jr

Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull) by R Jay Magill Jr argues that we can't shake sincerity's deep theological past, emotional resonance, and the sense of conscience it has carved in the Western soul.

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Front cover of Galley Slave by Jean Marteilhe
Galley Slave - Jean Marteilhe

Galley Slave: Seafarers' Voices No.

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Front Cover of Treasure of the Atocha by R Duncan Mathewson III
Treasure of the Atocha - R Duncan Mathewson III

Treasure of the Atocha: A $400 Million Archaeological Adventure by R Duncan Mathewson III tells the story of the long search for the wreck, telling of a series of tantalising clues and serious setbacks before it was eventually found.

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Front Cover of Mazes & Labyrinths by W H Matthews
Mazes & Labyrinths - W H Matthews

Mazes & Labyrinths: Their history and development by W H Matthews shows us with devoted scholarship and an appreciation for what he terms "the lure of the labyrinth," Matthews explores accounts of ancient mazes, the "meanders" of Greek and Roman times, the hedge maze, and more. With 151 illustrations.

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Front cover of Indigo by Catherine E McKinley
Indigo - Catherine E McKinley

Indigo: In search of the color that seduced the world by Catherine E McKinley brims with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage.

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Front cover of The Paper Trail  by Alexander Monro
The Paper Trail - Alexander Monro

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention by Alexander Monro is the story of how paper, a simple Chinese invention, has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and of ideas.

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