Western Civilization, A Brief History - Prijzen

Harrogate

This is the first comprehensive history of Harrogate to encompass both its pre-Conquest origins and the most recent development. The community began as an Anglo-Norse settlement and later became part...

The Trotula

The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to...

The Envoy

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save t...

The Royal Mile

There are several books about the Royal Mile, so why buy this particular one? The reason is, it covers everything you need to know - all the little closes, wynds and courts running off the main street...

Red Eagles

From the mid-1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, eventually creating a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilo...

Grenzüberschreitungen

The Centurion Tank

The Centurion was the British Army's first standard post-World War Two main battle tank. It first saw combat in the Korean War, and was used by a number of armed forces in many engagements over the ne...

Hitlers Trutzgau. Thüringen im Dritten Reich 1. Vorkriegsjahre

Adolf Hitler entwickelte spätestens nach dem Weimarer Parteitag der NSDAP 1926, dem ersten und einzigen nach der Neuaufrichtung der Partei, der nicht in Nürnberg veranstaltet wurde, eine besondere Aff...

Fame

One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once ass...

The History of Armenia

There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide - an interest that informs the strong desire of a new...

Intermediate Chinese

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated e...

Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300

The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role...