The Written World - How Literature Shaped History
Youre likely to list the invention of paper, the printing ...
The Second World War: An Illustrated History
The Second World War: An Illustrated History - University te...
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Cas...
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's...
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Cas...
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's...
Mindfulness in the Modern World - How Do I Make Meditat...
In Mindfulness in the Modern World, Osho helps us explore bo...
Secret History - Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to th...
History is written by the winners-and the powerful-but how m...
Their Finest Hour - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm tha...
Triumph and Tragedy - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm tha...
Closing the Ring - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm tha...
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1 - From C...
The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny ...
100 People Who Made History - Meet the People Who Shape...
Meet the people who helped shape the world we know today. 1...
The Churchill Factor - How One Man Made History
From London s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of ...
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Mo...
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern ...
Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Lite...
Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literatur...
The Written World - How Literature Shaped History
Delphi - A History of the Center of the Ancient World
The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the omphalosthe center or navelof the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consult Delphis oracular priestess; to set up monuments to the gods; and to take part in competitions. In this richly illustrated account, Mich...
The Great World
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other peoples battles from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy yea...
On Intelligence - The History of Espionage and the Secret World
This book is a professional military-intelligence officers and a controversial insiders view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war with Iraq. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignor...
Fractured Lands - How the Arab World Came Apart
The product of some 18 months of reporting, [Fractured Lands] tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences war and uncertainty throughout the world are familiar to us all. Scott And...
The Shadow World - Inside the Global Arms Trade
A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade from a former member of the African National Congress Revealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of ex-President Jacob Zumas South Africa Andrew Feinstein delves behind BAEs controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the revolving-door relationships that char...
The Story of Food - An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat
Includes a foreword by Giles Coren. Explore the rich stories, symbolism, and traditions that come wrapped up in the food on our plates food that not only feeds our bodies but also makes up our culture. In The Story of Food; An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat our millennia-old relationship with nearly 200 foods from nuts and seeds to noodles and meat is sumptuously illustrated, w...
Children's Book of the Movies - Explore the Magical, Behind-The-Scenes World of the World
Now kids can explore the magical, behind-the-scenes world of cinema in the Childrens Book of the Movies. Exploring the glamorous world of the movies with child-friendly text and pictures, this definitive guide to cinema reveals how movies work: who makes them, the jobs they have, and the tools and techniques they use. It showcases top movie stars and characters, introduces groundbreaking mus...
The Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to one true faith. Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nix...
Mindfulness in the Modern World - How Do I Make Meditation Part of Everyday Life?
In Mindfulness in the Modern World, Osho helps us explore both the inner and the outer obstacles that prevent us from bringing more awareness to all our daily activities. He emphasises that while techniques can be useful in pointing the way, in themselves they are not meditation. Rather, meditation or mindfulness is ultimately a state of being in which we are capable of both action and still...
The Written World - How Literature Shaped History
Youre likely to list the invention of paper, the printing press and the world wide web as major influences on the way we share stories. You probably wouldnt include Malian singers, American astronauts, Greek generals, Japanese courtiers and Spanish adventurers. And yet all of them played a crucial role in shaping and spreading literature as we know it today. The Written World tells the riveti...
NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Personal Size, Leathersoft, Pink/Brown, Indexed, Red Letter Edition - Bringing to...
Youve heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many behind-the-scenes details are you missing Sometimes a little context is all you need to discover the rich meaning behind the stories of Scripture. Thats what the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Personal Size provides. Every page is packed with expert insight into the customs, culture, and literature of Bible times. These fasc...
Cool Tech - Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World
Cool Tech is a thrilling journey through the physical side of the virtual world. Marvel at the technology that keeps you connected, from the ships installing lines deep in the ocean, the robots locating wire breaks, the satellites beaming signals across the earth, the teams retrieving and splicing lines together, to the servers directing and feeding internet traffic around the world. Plus, tak...
The Wife's Tale - A Personal History
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopias history. A new Wild Swans A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She wit...
Strategy in the Contemporary World - An Introduction to Strategic Studies
Strategy in the Contemporary World brings together world leading experts to provide a comprehensive introduction to the role of military power in todays world. The definitive textbook on the subject, the fifth edition explores both the enduring and historical issues which have shaped the study of strategy and the contemporary issues that dominate todays headlines. The new edition has been subs...
The Happiness Effect - How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. People-and especially the media-are consumed by fears about the effect of social media on young people. We hear constantly about the dangers that lurk online, and about young peoples seemingly pathological desire to share anything and everything about themselves with the entire world. Donna Freitas has traveled the country, talking to college students about wh...
The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book
A collection of easy-to-fold paper airplane designs and innovative theories of flight, including the authors Guinness World Record-breaking airplane. Features 16 tear-out model planes. /b> amp;#160; The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book chronicles the creation of the new distance champion paper airplane and how it broke the world record. Collinss revolutionary approach to plane design ...
The New Spymasters - Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a hint of sexual blackmail-is history. The spymasters technique has changed and the enemy has, too. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding and is part of a less well-organized group. The new enemy is constantly evolving and prepared to kill the ...
A Short History Of The First World War
The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1918, waswithout parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earths greatpowers participated. A Short History of the First World War tellsthe story of this cataclysmic event. Following a description of the backgroundof the war, each year of the war is dealt with in its own chapter, the battles,various battlefronts and...
Closing the Ring - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Clo...
Triumph and Tragedy - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Tri...
The Panama Papers - Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Suddeutsche Zeitung journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where comp...