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Destiny Disrupted - A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

A sweeping narrative history by the acclaimed author of "West of Kabul, East of New York" illuminates how Muslims have seen the history o...

The Sea and Civilization - A Maritime History of the World

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea-revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact wi...

Peril

The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American hi...

Madhouse at the End of the Earth - The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

"The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped ...

The End Is Always Near - Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Now a New York Times Bestseller. The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalypti...

A History of the Arab Peoples

A fully updated, new edition of the ever-popular classic of modern history. First published in 1991, this edition also covers recent even...

The Chinese Myths - A Guide to the Gods and Legends

The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese...

The Ottomans - Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly dif...

After the Fall - Being American in the World We've Made

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be ...

Tunisia - An Arab Anomaly / Foreword by Lisa Anderson

The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Ja...

The Bin Laden Papers - How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

Nelly Lahoud dives into Usama Bin Laden's files and meticulously distills the nearly 6,000 pages of Arabic private communications. For th...

Culture

This sweeping intellectual history explores how culture has changed and been understood over the last two hundred years, arguing against ...

The Water Kingdom

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factio...

Military Strategy - A Global History

Jeremy Black explores the relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy. Taking a "total? v...

The Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

In the middle of the great, global twentieth-century crisis, the Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with...

The Art of Military Innovation - Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

Why is Israel¿s relatively small and low-budget military also the world¿s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttw...

The Eye of the Master - A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

A ¿social¿ history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collec...

Legendary Children - The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the po...

The Gold Coast Regiment in the African Campaigns During the First World War 1914-18

A famous African regiment during the Great War The First World War was, of course, principally fought in Europe. The established European...

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in...

World War II Map by Map

Peter Snow provides the foreword to this book of over one-hundred detailed maps presenting different aspects of the Second World War thro...

The Berlin Wall - 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989

The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement ...

American Dynasty - Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit...

King Solomon's mines

"Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are se...

The valhalla exchange

Sabretache Plates - Treasures of the Hungaian Conquerors of the Carpathian Basin

Sabretaches were characteristic pieces of attire in the Hungarian Conquest period. Men of arms wore them on their weapon belts keeping th...

Brunetti's Venice - Walks through the novels

Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here,...

Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads

Chronik von Sanct Peter zu Erfurt - (1100-1215)

Books are still among the most important cultural achievements of humanity. Their invention was as important as the Internet: for the fir...

The causes of wars

The jewish problem

Isabella of Spain

Enemy at the gates

Triumph in the Pacific

Hitler's apocalypse: Jews and the nazi legacy

Farmers of India II.: Madras, Andhra Pradesh, Mysore & Kerala

Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan I-II.

Mission to Hanoi

British policy on Hungary 1918-1919

Warrior outlaws

Atlas of irish history

Nationalism and revolution in Mongolia

Historical notes on Indonesia & Malaya

Hitler's war directives 1939-1945

Pompeii & Herculaneum: The glory ant the grief

Tom Clancy's Net force: Hidden agendas

Hitler's death

Ladder of years

The Culture of Ancient Egypt

Legion of strangers

Seals in Vietnam

The Luftwaffe war diaries

The Challenge of Europeanization in the Region: East Central Europe

Kálmán Kulcsár: East Central Europe and the European Integration Wolfgang Merkel: Deepening and Widening? The Limits of European Integrat...

The new Cambridge modern history XII. The shifting balance of world...

Tom Clancy's OP Centre: Games of state

The Penguin guide to ancient Egypt

Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars 2 1807-15

Eastern Europe 1740-1985

The Warburgs

Absolutismus