In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
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Category: History
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings
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Category: History
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wiel ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Saints - An Authoritative Guide to the Lives and Works of over 300 Christian Saints by Tessa Paul; Ronald Creighton-Jobe (Consultant Editor)
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Category: History
This beautiful book chronicles the fascinating history of sainthood and the lives of over 300 saints. A concise introduction outlines the religious and social history of Christian saints from stigmata and martyrdom to feast days and patron saints. Then, the illustrated encyclopedia outlines the work of ...Show more
The Ethnobotanical - A World Tour of Indigenous Plant Knowledge by Sarah Edwards
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Category: History
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe, food to eat, materials to make clothes and shelter with, and medicine to treat and prevent disease. Their beauty can also enhance our mood and provide spi ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
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Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
The Eloquence of the Sardine: The Secret Life of Fish & Other Underwater Mysteries by Bill Francois
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Category: History
Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea. Roughly 91% of all marine species remain unknown: myths still to be written, discoveries still to be made, blank pages with room to dream . . .As a small boy, Bill Fran ois was frightened of deep water. Until a chance e ...Show more
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan
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Category: History
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Continuing Robert D. Kaplan's work as the premier American scholar of geopolitics . . . a book that everyone who wa ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
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Category: History
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
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Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Ukraine The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak
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Category: History
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation offers readers a chance to understand more about Ukraine's remarkable past, examining the crucial moments of Ukrainian and global history of the past 1000 years. In this compelling history, learn how the emergence of medieval states, the discovery of America, the industr ...Show more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
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Category: History
The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more