This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in ……続きを見る
Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and fought with distinction for 4 years, even earning recognition of his bravery in the newspapers of the day for ……続きを見る
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1902 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in ……続きを見る
著者:Rémi Monaque
出版社: Place des éditeurs
発売日: 2016年04月07日
L'histoire de la marine Française, des capétiens à nos jours, par un historien amiral.
En France, nation foncièrement terrienne, la marine a souvent été perçue comme une institution un peu insolite,……続きを見る
Une synthèse claire sur un sujet complexe, l'histoire d'un phénomène spirituel et politique marqué par une résistance obstinée à la violence du pouvoir, et dont bien des échos demeurent actuels.
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著者:Raz Chen-Morris
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2016年03月31日
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s rad……続きを見る
著者:Noam Chomsky
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2016年05月10日
**A New York Times Bestseller
The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power abo……続きを見る
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Robespierre et la Révolution française en moins d’une heure !
Si certains voient en lui le monstre sanguinaire de la Terreur, d’autres préfèrent le cons……続きを見る
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and……続きを見る
著者:Robert Deal
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年04月01日
Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from courts and law enforcement, competing crews……続きを見る
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer an……続きを見る
Small arms have developed hugely since the introduction of the machine gun in the 1870s. Magazine-fed rifles, submachine guns, automatic pistols and, later, assault rifles and personal defence weapo……続きを見る
Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft f……続きを見る
著者:Paul E Eden
出版社: Amber Books Ltd
発売日: 2016年04月06日
Commercial air travel began just over a century ago. In that time there have been groundbreaking civilian aircraft, such as flying boats, the first pressurized cabin aircraft, jet and supersonic air……続きを見る
著者:James W. Cortada
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific tr……続きを見る
Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a ninete……続きを見る
EBOOK EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE
What happens when the War on Terror media circus packs up and leaves town? Sarah Chayes spent six years in Afghanistan in order to find out. Living in the old capita……続きを見る
Retour sur un épisode clé de l'histoire de France sous un éclairage inédit
L’histoire sérieuse n’a pas encore mis en lumière la place qu’a tenue, dans la Révolution française, et dès le début, la cr……続きを見る
Les aventures pleines de panache du corsaire de Napoléon, racontées par son descendant
Pour qualifier Surcouf, les superlatifs manquent : il fut le plus brave, le plus audacieux, le plus insouciant,……続きを見る
著者:Alan Gurney
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2016年04月18日
"The compass's rocky evolution is charted with an enthusiast's passion…A fascinating adventure." ーBernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times
This is the rich history of the most important navigational de……続きを見る
著者:Steve Ryan
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年12月18日
QEH opened in 1590 in line with the instructions laid down in John Carr's will of 1586. Always known as the City School, it has occupied three sites in and around the centre of Bristol. The current ……続きを見る
Garments and accessories are prominent in almost all of William Shakespeare's plays, from Hamlet and Othello to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night. The statement 'Clothes maketh the man' wa……続きを見る
An illustrated history of British royal jubilee celebrations from George III to Elizabeth II.
In 1809, thanksgiving ceremonies and feasts across Britain ushered George III into his fiftieth year as ……続きを見る
**A EuropeNow Editor’s Pick
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“Pieter M. Judson’s book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, ……続きを見る
In questo saggio l'autore analizza il rapporto tra cattolicesimo e fascismo alla luce dei recenti studi che hanno sottolineato, da un lato, l'ambizione del fascismo a ergersi a religione politica e,……続きを見る
著者:Hugh Rethman
出版社: Tattered Flag
発売日: 2015年06月19日
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than ……続きを見る
著者:John Chalcraft
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年04月01日
The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East a……続きを見る
The German national state has always been integrated into a dense network of transnational integration. This applies also and in particular to the Federal Republic of Germany. This book presents the……続きを見る
Helen L. Parish presents an innovative new study of Reformation attitudes to medieval Christianity, revealing the process by which the medieval past was rewritten by Reformation propagandists. This ……続きを見る
Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to ……続きを見る