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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin’s holiday camps. ‘When I got to the camp I felt as if I’d suddenly walked into Utopia – it was so colourful, so warm, ……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politi……続きを見る

This is the prophecy book of the Seventh Angel revealing the mystery of God from the time of Elijah in Malachi 4: 5-6 as the Angel Sent of Rev. 22: 16; to be the Christ Peter answering questions: Wh……続きを見る

After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthe……続きを見る

The vastness of Britain’s nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the……続きを見る

La Cité chinoise - G.-Eugène Simon Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. G.-Eugène SIMON (1829 - 1896) est in……続きを見る

An essential history of a taste that shaped the world. Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffron is, per ounce……続きを見る

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This edition does not include illustrations. A new biography of one of the most intrepid, romantic and fascinating of the great nineteenth-century travellers. Explorer, scholar, travel writer and po……続きを見る

The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England – valued for its incredible purity – revolutionised domestic life around the world. In the days before artificial ……続きを見る

It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the M……続きを見る

Sans s’en apercevoir, le temps s’écoule et la rage révolutionnaire, qui semblait un moment vouloir se calmer, a repris de nouvelles forces (*). Que faire ? encore une promenade, cela fait passer le ……続きを見る

La pensée qui dirige notre curiosité, lorsqu’une pièce de théâtre est soumise à notre étude, est-elle le désir de trouver une représentation de mœurs qui nous sont inconnues ou l’expression d’un art……続きを見る

Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its cat……続きを見る

This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfully illustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fel……続きを見る

A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, w……続きを見る

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the fina……続きを見る

For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or so……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular historyーthe untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patr……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two Egypt experts posit a revolutionary theory: The Sphinx and other great Egyptian monuments are older than common history books tell us and are arranged in such a way as to s……続きを見る

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates th……続きを見る

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures……続きを見る

In the tradition of A History of Reading, this book is an account of Manguel’s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably throu……続きを見る

This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireーcomplete and unabridged. Edward Gi……続きを見る

A spellbinding blend of history and science, scholarship and speculation, this landmark work presents startling new evidence that traces archaeology's most enduring mysteries back to the lost civili……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York ……続きを見る

Dix années de séjour en Europe m’ont permis de juger que, de tous les pays de la terre, la Chine est le plus imparfaitement connu. Ce n’est cependant pas la curiosité qui fait défaut ! Tout ce qui v……続きを見る

If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to b……続きを見る

Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it……続きを見る

"Witty, well-reasoned, and, yes, occasionally potty mouthed, the fiercely talented Lucinda Holdforth may be doing more to save civilization than anyone I know. Holdforth has held forth, and for this……続きを見る