著者:David Arnold
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年03月04日
Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public ……続きを見る
Dans les coulisses de l'Histoire...
Un agent de police qui règle la circulation au sommet du mont Everest, un voleur de cerveau, un coiffeur qui fait couper la tête de sa meilleure cliente, un auber……続きを見る
The Man Cave Book by Mike Yost and Jeff Wilser is a tribute to great and glorious man spaces and the craftsmen behind them.
Complete with instructions and insights into creating your own unique refu……続きを見る
Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh, Outlaw Platoon is a Band of Brothers or We Were Soldiers Once ……続きを見る
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history.
From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War……続きを見る
Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and powerーin search of love an……続きを見る
Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintill……続きを見る
A Navy SEAL’s highly-charged military memoir of combat, his growth as a leader, his near fatal wounds, and his remarkable recoveryーa wounded warrior whose strength and fortitude have made him a nat……続きを見る
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present
INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS
Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast……続きを見る
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.
The Pastons were members of the English gentryーa tiny……続きを見る
An exuberant group biographyー"a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity" (The Guardian)ーthat follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering live……続きを見る
“Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.” ー Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books of the Year”
Winner of the S……続きを見る
"Feiler’s combination of journalism, commentary and self-discovery tells the reader volumes about humankind.” ーAtlanta Journal-Constitution on Abraham
Bruce Feiler, the bestselling author of Walkin……続きを見る
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take the hard-earned knowledge into the next battle.
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From Justo L. Gonzalez, author of the acclaimed three-volume History of Christian Thought, Story of Christianity: Volume 2, The is the fully revised and updated second volume of The Story of Christi……続きを見る
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
"An amazingly detailed account of fighting in I……続きを見る
From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner's "masterful treatm……続きを見る
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groun……続きを見る
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Ora……続きを見る
著者:Robert Macklin
出版社: Hachette Australia
発売日: 2016年07月26日
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public an……続きを見る
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels acr……続きを見る
A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning.
In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressiv……続きを見る