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Dr Falk
This popular history, recipe and wine pairing book has been fully revised, enhanced and updated. Dive deeper into the traditional cooking and culture of the Haudenosaunee--the first people of the…
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Dr. Mark Kretzschmar, Dr. Sara Raffel
"An analysis of historical and current trends in game studies and visual novels, with a focus on narrative structure, ludic interactivity and subgenres"--
Dr Campbell Price
A concise history exploring one of the richest civilisations in human history
Dr Katie Nelson
A fresh, informative and entertaining pop history of the world told through the biographies of 70 fascinating women you've never heard of (but should have).
Dr David Collits
This book enables readers to understand contemporary divisions in Catholic theology. By examining a case study of issues in Catholic fundamental theology, Collits charts a path forward by advocating a…
Dr William S. Allen
Examines aesthetics and the ideas of history and development through the work of Theodor Adorno, Peter Weiss, and Immanuel Kant.
Dominic Sandbrook, Dr Tom Holland
The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying A-Z through the past
William Shakespeare
The ideal gift for lovers of Shakespeare to enjoy the intrinsic beauty of the Bard's prose and poetry. Part of a beautiful three-set edition, with the works laid out in…
Dr. Jim Labisko, Dr. Richard Griffiths
A marvelously illustrated introductory guide to frogs and their natural history
Frogs are among the most diverse and adaptable animals on the planet, with a rich evolutionary history and a…
Dr. Toyin Falola
An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.
Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary…
Exploring the culture of interior design and architecture in the Age of the Enlightenment
Dr Ingrid A. Medby
This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an 'Arctic state'. It asks what an Arctic…
Dr Ceren OEzpinar
The book explores how the lives and communities of artists and their artworks intersect. It focuses on paintings, installations, photographs, batik, and performance art from Turkey between 1973 and 1998…
Dr Peter Johnson
Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwood's philosophy, Peter Johnson presents essays on Collingwood as a pre-historian, economist, Christian and commentator of Edward Gibbon together with an investigation…
Dr Owen Rees
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees…
'A journey of discovery that never fails to be engaging . . . A natural storyteller' Helen King, author of Immaculate Forms
'A blast of fresh air, presenting a perspective…
Dr Rebecca A. Brubaker
Reversing Ethnic Cleansing through Minority Returns examines whether and how ethnic, religious, and political minorities should be returned and reintegrated after conflict.
Dr Jonathan M Jackson
What was the effect of the numerous, albeit often unsatisfied, plans for development on the land and communities of the Kilombero valley throughout the colonial period and into the first…
Dr Meredith L. Roman
The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time…
Offers insights into the political, social and cultural interests that informed the shaping of England's pre-Conquest history.
Dr. Jeanette Zaragoza-De Leon
Interpreting The Amistad Trials traces the signal importance of interpreters and translators in the famous 19th-century Amistad case and discusses how race, ethnicity, slavery, and colonialism shaped this story.
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Dr. Seema Yasmin
A Through-the-Alphabet Celebration of Queer History in the US, from the Publisher of the New York Times Bestseller The ABCs of Black History
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Explores semantics across diverse religious, spiritual, cosmological, and historical views of time shape personal and collective understandings of the past through alternative historicities.
Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times
The nation's favourite…
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The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe, China and Africa, it offered…
Excavations at Damjili Cave provided the first detailed opportunity to observe Neolithization processes with secure stratigraphic evidence across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Azerbaijan.
Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking…
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This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.
Dr History
Get enchanted with Grand Canyon history and its remarkable events.
Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn…
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Get enchanted with The Cold War history and its remarkable events.
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Get enchanted with Great Wall of China history and its remarkable events.
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Get enchanted with Pearl Harbor history and its remarkable events.
Get enchanted with Battle of Gettysburg history and its remarkable events.
Get enchanted with The Slave Wars history and its remarkable events.
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Get enchanted with The Middle Ages and its remarkable events.
Hello, little adventurer! Have you ever dreamed of traveling back in time? Do you know that you don't need superpowers to do so? You can time travel right here, right…
Get enchanted with Bermuda Triangle Mystery history and its remarkable events.
Get enchanted with Greek Mythology history and its remarkable events.
Get enchanted with The Gold Rush history and its remarkable events.
Get enchanted with African History and its remarkable events.
Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all…
Get enchanted with Civil Rights Movement and its remarkable events.
Dr Jonathan Healey
'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES 'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century…
Dr Sara Caputo
A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world
Get enchanted with Sumerian Mythology history and its remarkable events.
