Authors: Lynn Pan, Ling Pan Synopsis: MORE THAN A BILLION PEOPLE. AND IT IS THE REVOLUTION IN ALL THESE ASPECTS - ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL - THAT "THE NEW...
Author: Mike Cheatham "In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, former Coca-Cola ad man Mike Cheatham has compiled a fond look back...
Author: David Fromkin Within a few years of each other in the 1880s five Americans were born who would play large parts in leading the way toward a new balance...
Author: Stacy Schiff Wohl kaum eine Frau bewegt die Gemüter seit tausenden von Jahren wie Kleopatra. Wer war diese Frau wirklich, war es ihre Schönheit oder ihr brillianter Verstand, die...
Author: Philippe Claudel From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs...
Author: Peter Collier Tells the complete story of the triumphs and failures of the Kennedy family, a chronicle that encompasses the major events of the second half of this century...
Author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Examines the irrationalities of governments through analysis of four crises of history--the fall of Troy, the Renaissance popes' provocation of the Protestant Reformation, Britain's loss of...
Author: Adeline Yen Mah
The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother
Author: Bernard Bailyn Synopsis: This book is the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without...
Author: Julian Jackson On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the...
Author: David McCullough The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and...
Author: Larry Gonick Synopsis: Cartoons review the history of America from the end of the Civil War up to now, and looks at important issues, events, and individuals "About this...
Author: Edward Gibbon This is an abridged edition of Gibbon's classic. Concentrating on the centuries from the age of the Antonines to the fall of the empire in the West,...
Author: Angjolie Mei Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how the death of her...
Author: Douglas Leighton Synopsis: Through the lens of his camera, Douglas Leighton has captured the magic and the majesty of the Canadian Rockies. Because he is himself a resident of...
Author: Jonathan D. Spence A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by religious visionary Hong...
Author: William J. Bouwsma Historians conventionally view intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction. William J. Bouwsma rethinks the accepted view, arguing that while the...
Author: Kevin Toolis Presents ten years' of in-depth research into the lives of IRA members, exploring the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the personal tolls it has...
Author: Arthur Cotterell A historical examination of East Asia divided into three time periods: the Chinese predominance (B.C. to 14th century), the new balance of power (14th-20th century), and the...
Author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman "Latter-day history has been content to trace the origins of Britain's Palestine Mandate, based on and incorporating the Balfour Declaration, to the exigencies of the post-World...
Author: Albert Soboul A phenomenon of the pre-industrial age, the Sans-Culottes--master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants--were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those...
Authors: Vincent P. Carosso, Rose C. Carosso The House of Morgan personified economic power in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Carosso constructs an in-depth account of the evolution, operations, and...
Author: John David Anderson Written by one of the most succesful aerospace authors, this new book develops aircraft performance techniques from first principles and applies then to real airplanes. It...
Author: Simon Schama Studies the forces that led the Dutch on a course of revolution and the grave economic and political problems that befell the Dutch government in its efforts...
Author: David A. Traill A revisionist portrait of nineteenth-century German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann argues that Schliemann regularly distorted facts about his personal life and discoveries and provides a detailed analysis...
Author: Matthew Josephson Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick...this is the story of the giant american capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape...
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton The many dramatic moments of Secretary Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State frame her thoughts about the recent history of US foreign policy and the...
Authors: Desmond Ball, Robert Ayson From the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the implications of the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security...
Author: Sir Frederick Pollock Although this book was envisaged as a joint venture and bears the name of both Pollock and Maitland, it is substantially the work of Maitland. It...
Author: G. R. Potter Huldrych Zwingli was widely known as a humanist and admirer of Erasmus when he came to Zurich from Glarus and Einsiedeln in 1519. The stages of...
Author: Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Explores changes in the national character since the Civil War paying particular attention to the social costs of progress. Bibliogs
Author: R. Porter A history of the Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of...
Author: Simon Garfield Synopsis: Shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday. About the Author&colon Simon Garfield is...
Author: Chalmers A. Johnson A classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German,...
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Recounts the activities in China of the late-sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci, and examines the cultural and historical contexts of those activities
Author: Natalie Haynes In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern...
Author: David A. Hollinger The American Intellectual Tradition has long been the only documents reader available in American Intellectual History. Organized chronologically from the 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony to the...
Author: Anna Reid When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his...
Author: Sir Frederick Pollock Although this book was envisaged as a joint venture and bears the name of both Pollock and Maitland, it is substantially the work of Maitland. It...
Author: Steven Runciman Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. In this final volume,...
Author: Thaddeus Russell In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons,...
Authors: Sunzi, Tzu Sun The definitive translation of Sun-tzu's timeless classic of military strategy, Art of War Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever...
Author: Noel Malcolm Discusses the different ethnic and religious groups that inhabit Bosnia, and looks at the political and cultural upheaval that have been a continuing part of the region's...
Author: Wayne Franklin Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers. So urged the sailing instructions prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts...
Author: Adrian Johns Discusses how books were written, printed, and distributed in early modern England; the relationships among authors, printers, booksellers, and government officials; and the impact of technological innovation....
