Author: Frank McCourt This is the phenomenal worldwide best-seller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s....
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: Blaine Harden Synopsis: Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot About the Author&colon Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS Frontline and a contributor to The Economist, based in Seattle,...
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our...
Author: Ying-Ying Chang A devastatingly powerful book about the loss to madness not only of a daughter, a wife and a mother, but of a promising young historian and author....
Author: John F. Avedon
Now considered a classic, this is an eloquent and compellingly told account of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet after its conquest by China.
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: Patricia Pui Huen Lim This book takes the reader to old Malaya as seen through the eyes of King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The King was probably the most travelled...
Authors: Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan Synopsis: The definitive, Nobel Prize–winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature From Britain's...
Author: David Cannadine This study is a history of the British aristocracy as it unfolded during the last century. The author recounts the process by which the notable and nobles...
Author: Lijia Zhang Documents the author's youth in China during the 1980s, from "inheriting" her mother's job at a nearby factory through the "replace job" system, to helping to organize...
Author: Thom Hartmann The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming...
Authors: Kathleen M. Adams, Kathleen Gillogly, Kathleen A. Gillogly This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and...
Authors: Herodotus, Carolyn Dewald, Robin Waterfield Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting...
Author: Greg Jenner 'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner as is witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning...
Author: Perry Anderson The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection...
Author: Ketaki Kushari Dyson This pioneering study of the journals and memoirs written by Britishers about their experiences in the Indian subcontinent in the late eighteenth and early nienteenth centuries,...
Author: François Bizot In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Fran ois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an...
Author: Kevin Y.L. Tan Singapore's collection of Southeast Asian animals–one of the world's largest–dates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in 1878.With the opening of the Lee Kong...
Authors: Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission...
Author: Steven J. Ross This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of...
Author: Shuyun Sun Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. Sun Shuyun follows the route of the march, interviews the handful of...
Author: Janice Stockard This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, 'delayed transfer marriage', that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely established...
Author: Deborah Blum The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Ghost Hunters chronicles the dramatic story of New York City's first forensic scientists to describe Jazz Age poisoning cases, including a...
Author: Martin Gilbert Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship...
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: Miranda Carter In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II....
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: David Burner David Burner's panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense of the...
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: Hooman Majd The exile son of an Iranian diplomat and grandson of an ayatollah offers an insightful study of the forces that underly the vast paradoxes in Iranian character,...
Author: Bob Woodward Bob Woodward's book on President Bush and the Iraq war will be the definitive account of the turning point in history as Bush, his war council and...
Author: Telford Taylor A key member of the prosecution team at the Nuremberg war crimes trials offers an eyewitness account of the tribunal, shedding new light on the accused top-echelon...
Author: Jonathan Randall White Strives to discuss the ost sophisticated theories by the best terrorist analysts in the world, while still focusing on the domestic and international threats of terrorism...
Author: Gordon G. Chang Fully revised and updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO and with a new introduction. 'Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some...
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: 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...
Authors: Keith Krause, Michael Charles Williams Critical Security Studies establishes a critical perspective for the study of post-Cold War international relations, and examines challenges to international security caused by regional...
Author: D. M. Thomas A well-known poet, translator, and novelist in his own right combines exhaustive research with an easy novelistic style in an epic portrait of Alexander Solzhenitsy, an...
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: 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: Alan English Synopsis: Definitive and richly illustrated accounts of the century's most compelling sports stories Sport and the 20th century are inextricably intertwined. What began as a pastime for...
