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American Sniper - The Autobiography of Seal Chief Chris Kyle (USN, 1999-2009), the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the Uni...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
(1 röst)Reissue of a novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly t...
Contemporary Britain
Once the world's foremost industrial power, Britain has had a profound effect on the course of world affairs. While its political and cultural legacy remains strong, Britain has had to adapt to a new and radically different globalized order. The t...
The Man Who Changed Everything - The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
(1 röst)This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectation...
Portraiture
This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they ...
Envisioning Women in World History: Prehistory to 1500
Part of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume presents a comparative survey of the early history of women from a global perspective. Each chapter, which can be read independently of the others, examin...
The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition
(1 röst)One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, "The Diary of a Young Girl" has sold over 25 million copies world-wide. It is one...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.
Contemporary America
This book is a broad-ranging and lively introduction to all aspects of life in America. This third edition takes account of the 2008 presidential elections and examines the state of the nation after George W. Bush.
Escape from Camp 14 - One man's remarkable odyssey from N
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ...Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Kor...
Illustrated History of Britain, An Paper
An absorbing overview of major events in England, Scotland and Wales, tracing the development of the nation from prehistoric times to the present day.
Ordinary Men - Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
This detailed and harrowing study of a single group of mostly middle-aged policemen from provincial Germany has achieved classic status among histories of the Holocaust. Far from being demonic and hate-filled sadists, most of the group had no hist...
Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" contains an introduction by Amos Elon in "Penguin Classics". Sparking a flurry of heated debat...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that ...
Contemporary Britain
The comprehensively revised and updated 2nd edition of this successful text provides a lively, accessible and concise introduction to political, economic and social life in Britain. Illustrated with maps, charts and tables throughout, this book as...
Essence of Decision - Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but complet...
A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and consi...
World History - A New Perspective
Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India and Jap...
Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction
How did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of the twenty first century? This Very Short Introduction answers that question; exploring the cultural and religious diversity of Islamic history. Adam Silverstein ...
Global Capitalism - Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
(1 röst)Globalisation is a choice, not a fact. It is the result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalisation during the early years of the twentieth century, its swif...
Farewell to the East End - The Last Days of the East End Midwives
This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ship's woman who 'serviced' the ...
With the Old Breed - The World War Two Pacific Classic
(1 röst)The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recr...
American Cultural Studies - An Introduction to American Culture
Praise for previous editions: 'Something of a godsend ...as a teaching resource this book is second to none ...achieves levels of multiplicity rarely, if ever, reached by others.' - Borderlines: Studies in American Culture This third edition of Am...
The Republic
(1 röst)One of the greatest works of philosophy and political theory ever produced, Plato's "The Republic" has shaped western thought for thousands of years, remaining as relevant today as when it was first written in the Ancient Greece. This &q...
European Architecture 1750-1890
A lively thematic survey of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture and its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdoll traces key themes the role of changing theories of history in a...
English Heritage, English Cinema - Costume Drama Since 1980
This title discusses English heritage on film. It argues that the ambivalence of the films themselves and the richness of the reception process necessarily produces a range of often incompatible interpretations of the same films.
On Holiday - A History of Vacationing
Lofgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of 'learning to be a tourist' have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (wri...
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe - Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization
A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in respond...
History of 20th Century Fashion
A History of 20th Century Fashion charts the early dominance of couture to the influences of street culture. The narrative is based on a firm understanding of social, economic and technical developments all over the world, and emphasizes the comme...
Bowling Alone - The Collapse and Revival of American Community
In a groundbreaking book based on vast new data, Robert Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbours and our democratic structures- and how we may reconnect. BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their st...
