100 Ideas that Changed Street Style is a look-by-look dissection of the key ideas that changed the way we dress from the middle of the...
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER ",A wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to...
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most...
",A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures.",-Ruth Goodman, Wall Street Journal Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and...
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity...
Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time ",[A] mind-stretching book. . .. Skilfully written.",-John Carey, Sunday Times (London)A tour of clocks...
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessible...
In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. Today our homes are...
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white façades, discreet traffic and...
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from...
This book explores the role of horses across the medieval world, from the Kievan Rus' and Scandinavia to Central Europe, Byzantium, the Arab world and...
How a culture of commons can help humanity regain its willingness to trust How do we break a culture of mistrust while...
Historians and theorists explore the anthropology and history of war Originating from the Engelsberg Seminar of 2015, this anthology gathers texts from internationally renowned historians,...
This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free...
The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study...
As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding...
'A history that somehow manages to be at once succinct and sweeping: essential reading for anyone interested in this most fascinating of countries' Tom HollandIn...
From a prizewinning writer, this sweeping global history charts the rise of nation-states in order to explain their multiple failures today - and to lay...
Explore the beauty and majesty of planet Earth in this compendium, with more than 100 incredible stories and images. The world is so much more...
'Brilliant ... if you thought your brain was being gently warmed by the advertising industry, read this book and you'll realise it's being fried' -...
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