著者:Larry Gonick
出版社: MAIN STREET
ISBN: 9780385420938
発売日: 1994年
Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that "Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.
B & W illustrations.
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著者:Jared Diamond
出版社: W W NORTON & CO
ISBN: 9780393061314
発売日: 2005年
With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.
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著者:Larry Gonick
出版社: W W NORTON & CO
ISBN: 9780393324037
発売日: 2002年
This long-awaited new volume is an irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
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著者:ALAN SCHOM
出版社: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY (USA).
ISBN: 9780393326284
発売日: 2004年
A fresh and provocative account of the greatest naval campaign of the twentieth century.
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著者:John Dower
出版社: PANTHEON
ISBN: 9780394751726
発売日: 1987年
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- ……
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著者:Stephen E. Ambrose
出版社: TOUCHSTONE PR
ISBN: 9780671671563
発売日: 1988年
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by accla……
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著者:Edward W. Said
出版社: VINTAGE
ISBN: 9780679758907
発売日: 1997年
In this landmark work, for which he has written a new Introduction, one of our foremost public thinkers examines to origins and repercussions of the media's monolithic images of Islam. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Edward Said reveals the hidden assumptions and distortion……
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著者:Valerian Albanov, David Roberts, Jon Krakauer
出版社: MODERN LIB
ISBN: 9780679783619
発売日: 2001年
著者:Hunter S. Thompson
出版社: VINTAGE
ISBN: 9780679785897
発売日: 1998年
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1972.
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著者:David McCullough
出版社: SIMON & SCHUSTER
ISBN: 9780743226714
発売日: 2005年
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman" and "John Adams," David McCullough returns with the story of the Revolutionary War--a book certain to be another landmark in the literature of American history.Simon & Schuster
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著者:Ted W. Lawson, Robert Considine
出版社: POCKET BOOKS
ISBN: 9780743474337
発売日: 2004年
Called "the most stirring story of individual heroism that the war has so far produced" ("The New York Times"), this classic is Captain Lawson's account of the raid over Tokyo in 1942 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, commanded by Captain James H. Doolittle. photos.
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著者:John Toland
出版社: RANDOM HOUSE
ISBN: 9780812968583
発売日: 2003年
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, "The Rising Sun is, in the author's words, "a factual saga……
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著者:Ian Buruma
出版社: MODERN LIB
ISBN: 9780812972863
発売日: 2004年
著者:John F. Kennedy
出版社: HARPERCOLLINS
ISBN: 9780060530624
発売日: 2003年
The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is now offered in a beautiful hardcover edition with a new Introduction by Caroline Kennedy.
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著者:E. a. Wallis Budge
出版社: DOVER PUBN INC
ISBN: 9780486218663
発売日: 1967年
Complete reproduction of Ani's papyrus, finest ever found. Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation.
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著者:David McCullough
出版社: SIMON & SCHUSTER
ISBN: 9780743226721
発売日: 2006年
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman" and "John Adams," David McCullough returns with the story of the Revolutionary War--a book certain to be another landmark in the literature of American history.Simon & Schuster
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著者:Karen Armstrong
出版社: ANCHOR
ISBN: 9780385721400
発売日: 2001年
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God," skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that ……
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著者:Art Spiegelman
出版社: PANTHEON
ISBN: 9780679729778
発売日: 1992年
MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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著者:Stacy Schiff
出版社: ST MARTINS PR
ISBN: 9780805080094
発売日: 2006年
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career, an eight-year mission that stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing view of him during an unforgettable chapter of the Revolution.
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著者:Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Gay, Hajo Holborn
出版社: RANDOM HOUSE
ISBN: 9780375759260
発売日: 2002年
Published in 1860, Burckhardt's great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived……
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著者:Louis Menand
出版社: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
ISBN: 9780374528492
発売日: 2002年
In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos.
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著者:Hew Strachan
出版社: PENGUIN GROUP
ISBN: 9780143035183
発売日: 2005年
Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photos, this account is "quite simply the best short history of the war in print" (Dennis Showalter).
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著者:Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna
出版社: DOVER PUBN INC
ISBN: 9780486409030
発売日: 1999年
Nearly 300 speeches provide public speakers with a wealth of quotes and inspiration, from Pericles' funeral oration and William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech to Malcolm X's powerful words on the Black Revolution.
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著者:David Halberstam
出版社: FAWCETT
ISBN: 9780449908709
発売日: 1993年
A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost ……
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著者:Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens
出版社: PENGUIN GROUP
ISBN: 9780143104902
発売日: 2007年
Written on the brink of World War II, West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia is a magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight.
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著者:James L. Swanson
出版社: PERENNIAL
ISBN: 9780060518509
発売日: 2007年
From April 14-26, 1865, the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices transfixed a nation reeling from the horrors of the newly ended Civil War. "Manhunt" takes readers on the intensive search that moves side-by-side with the desperate assassin from the streets of Washington, D.C., through th……
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著者:Abraham Lincoln
出版社: DOVER PUBN INC
ISBN: 9780486268729
発売日: 1991年
Masterly orations, letters. "House Divided" speech (1858), First Inaugural Address (1861), Gettysburg Address (1863), Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), Second Inaugural Address (1865), 11 others.
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著者:John Keegan
出版社: PENGUIN GROUP
ISBN: 9780143035732
発売日: 2005年
Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan now reconstructs his masterful study of World War II with a new Foreword. Maps & photos throughout.
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著者:Jon Meacham
出版社: RANDOM HOUSE
ISBN: 9780812972825
発売日: 2004年
著者:Neil Sheehan
出版社: VINTAGE
ISBN: 9780679724148
発売日: 1989年
Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.
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