Author: Solomon Northup The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by...
Author: Kathryn Hughes `Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER...
Author: John Sutherland "An enjoyable account of a lifelong involvement with literature."-John Vukmirovich, Times Literary Supplement This "little history" takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature...
Author: Stacy Schiff Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the...
Author: Natascha Kampusch On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She...
Author: Jared Diamond 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what...
Author: Lihui Yang Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese myth, praising...
Author: Apollodorus By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' "Library" and Hyginus' "Fabulae"--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume...
Author: Thomas Keneally Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a...
Author: Katherine Boo Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic...
Author: Mende Nazer Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan....
Author: Justin Wintle Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world's most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of non-violence, having served as the figurehead for Burma's struggle for...
Author: Henry F. May
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Author: William E. Leuchtenburg When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way...
Author: Geoffroi De Villehardouin Composed by soldiers who fought in the Holy Wars, these two famous French chronicles are among the most important portrayals of both the dark and light...
Author: Francois Voltaire Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture....
Author: Arrian The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to...
Author: James Madison Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New...
