Historia

A History of World Societies

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

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...

No Easy Day - The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

"No Easy Day" by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team ...

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...

American Sniper - the Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

<p>He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .<p>From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career snipe...

The Man Who Changed Everything - The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

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

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...

In the Garden of Beasts - Love and Terror in Hitler's Berlin

It's Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his fam...

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...

At Home - A Short History of Private Life

From one of the most beloved authors of our time--more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. <br>"Houses aren't refuges from hi...

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.

Escape From Camp 14 - One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

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...

Fingerprints Of The Gods

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization tha...

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...

Book Was There - Reading in Electronic Times

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the boo...

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 ...

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...

Meditations

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammo...

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

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...

With the Old Breed - The World War Two Pacific Classic

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...