History

Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968

by Jiri Valenta

1979

Bitter Glory

by Richard M. Watt

1979

"In Bitter Glory, Richard M. Watt tells the story of the independent Poland of 1918-1939. He also gives the definitive account in English of the dominant figure in this story, the Polish freedom fighter and strongman Józef Piłsudski. W…

Latin, Or, The Empire of the Sign

by Françoise Waquet

2001

A wide-ranging & highly readable history of Latin between the sixteenth & twentieth centuries - a period when it dominated the civic & sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. Latin explores the instituti…

METEOROLOGY

by Aristotle

2017

�WE have already discussed the first causes of nature, and all natural motion, also the stars ordered in the motion of the heavens, and the physical element-enumerating and specifying them and showing how they change into one another-and be…

€2.79 list price

A History Of Persia (Volume 2)

by Sir Percy Sykes

2013

This is a facsimile of a classic history first published by Macmillan in 1915 and issued in two further editions by Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sir Percy Sykes was an explorer, consul, soldier and a spy who lived and travelled in Persia over …

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The Reforms of Peter the Great

by Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

2015

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expa…

€57.56 list price

Russia and the Russians

by Geoffrey A. Hosking

2001

Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.…

Great Soviet Encyclopedia

by Jean Paradise, Aleksandr M. Prochorov

1982

With Honour & Glory

by Maj Gen Jagjit Singh

2000

This Book Details The Nuclear Weapon Capabilities Of India And Pakistan Prior And Subsequent To The Pokharan And Chagai Tests Of 1998. It Also Deals Wth The Delivery Systems Available To Both Sides And With Possible Command Structure For Th…

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The Mandaeans

by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

2002

The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient …

Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan Piggott

2003

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The …

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The Clash of Empires

by Lydia H. Liu

2004

This book illuminates the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged from the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests …