著者:Dan Jones
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2021年09月02日
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times
'A great achievement, pulling tog……続きを見る
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'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari
'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The T……続きを見る
‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR O……続きを見る
著者:Annalee Newitz
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2021年02月02日
**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human historyーand figure out why people abandoned them.**
In Four Lost Ci……続きを見る
A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along with us. "Eye-opening and thought-pro……続きを見る
Les Orientales est une œuvre poétique de Victor Hugo publiée en 1829. Ce recueil, composé de quarante et un poèmes, est écrit entre 1827 et 1828. C’est un ouvrage……続きを見る
Die Normannen, in den zeitgenössischen Quellen als «Nordmänner» bezeichnet, haben die Geschichte des Mittelalters vielfältig geprägt. Ausgehend von den Wikingern beschreibt Hubert Houben die Ansiedl……続きを見る
Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work o……続きを見る
La Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias es un libro escrito en 1552 por el fraile dominico español Bartolomé de las Casas, el principal defensor de los indios en América, en el que den……続きを見る
著者:John Burrow
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年04月08日
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains ……続きを見る
Der 14. Oktober 1066 war ein Schicksalstag der englischen Geschichte. Damals besiegten in der Schlacht von Hastings die Truppen Herzog Wilhelms das Aufgebot der Angelsachsen, die unter ihrem König H……続きを見る
著者:Marie Favereau
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2021年04月20日
Cundill Prize Finalist
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Five Books Book of the Year
The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive hi……続きを見る
In "A Short History of the World," H. G. Wells masterfully distills the vast expanse of human history into a concise narrative, weaving together themes of civilization, conflict, and progress. The b……続きを見る
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast……続きを見る
著者:John C. Madden
出版社: STC Enterprises Inc.
発売日: 2013年07月09日
Linking Science and Science History with Culture - Essential Science for the Non-scientist.
The Davey Dialogues is an easy-to-understand history and background to key discoveries which have altered ……続きを見る
Hayy ibn Yaqzan ("Alive, son of Awake"; Latin: Philosophus Autodidactus "The Self-Taught Philosopher"; English: The Improvement of Human Reason) was the first Arabic novel and t……続きを見る
著者:Keith Seddon
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年05月02日
This new translation presents two works, one by Epictetus and the other by Cebes, two ancient Greek philosophers of the Imperial period, in new translations of clear, straightforward English.
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Academic rivalries, medical ethics, child brides, vegetarianism, aversion to pork, gift-givingーthese and other familiar issues have a fascinating history among the diverse communities that have con……続きを見る
Can God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recou……続きを見る
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competit……続きを見る
The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, which embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learnin……続きを見る
People say that - History Repeats Itself - or the skeptics will make the comment - It Can't Happen to Me. Just to show that history can repeat itself and actually has I investigated this subject and……続きを見る
*Includes maps of Genghis Khan's empire and pictures depicting Genghis and other important people and places in his life.*Discusses legends and controversies surrounding Genghis Khan's life, death a……続きを見る
Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword
'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affec……続きを見る
Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly s……続きを見る
The Völsungasaga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Völsu……続きを見る
著者:Edward Gibbon
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年10月23日
"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly th……続きを見る