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  • Fall of Civilizations

    Stories of Greatness and Decline

    by Paul Cooper ...
    **"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."―**The TimesBased on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and ... Read more

    RM 49.89

  • The Histories

    by Herodotus ...
    Translated by Tom Holland ...
    Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. Joined here are the sheer drama of Herodotus' narrative of the Persian ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • A History of Jerusalem

    One City, Three Faiths

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.‘A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world.Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of ... Read more

    RM 37.79

  • Tao Te Ching

    A New English Version

    by Stephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu ...
    The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one ... Read more

    RM 44.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Promiscuous Knowledge

    Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

    by Kenneth Cmiel, John Durham Peters ...
    "[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century." —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

    RM 50.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medium Raw

    A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

    by Anthony Bourdain ...
    Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, ... Read more

    RM 45.09

  • Life in a Medieval Village

    by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ...
    Series series Medieval Life
    The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made ... Read more

    RM 38.89

  • Maths on the Back of an Envelope

    Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything

    by Rob Eastaway ...
    ‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRYHow many cats are there in the world?What's the chance of winning the lottery twice?And just how long does it take to count to a million?Learn how to tackle tricky maths problems with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power.Join ... Read more

    RM 38.49

  • The LGBTQ + History Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian ... Read more

    RM 87.79

  • Time's Monster

    History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

    by Priya Satia ...
    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India ... Read more

    RM 49.99

  • Double Helix History

    Genetics and the Past

    by Jerome De Groot ...
    Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of ‘new’ knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history.Since the mapping of the human genome in 2001, there has been an expansion in the use of genetic information for historical investigation. Geneticists are confident ... Read more

    RM 219.51

  • Pfalzgraue Ludwigs Vertrag zwischen der Pfaffheit unnd Stadt Speyer

    by Erik Schreiber ...
    Series Book 116 - Historisches Deutschland
    Dieser Text aus dem Jahr 1526 beschreibt den Vertrag der Stadt Speyer ausgehandelt mit dem Bischof der Stadt. Es geht um die Rechte der jeweiligen Gruppierung. Auf diese Weise soll der ewige Streit zwischen der Stadt Speyer und der katholischen Kirche geschlichtet und letztlich beigelegt werden. ... Read more

    RM 21.19

  • Fruer og vildmænd. Dansk middelalderhistorie. Bind 2

    by Niels Skyum-Nielsen ...
    Indtil for relativt nyligt var verdenshistorien skrevet på en måde, som fik det til at se ud, som om kun stormænd, bisper, konger og militærmænd var værd at fortælle om – med særlig vægt lagt på ordet ’mænd’. Niels Skyum-Nielsens tobindsværk ”Fruer og vildmænd” gør op med den traditionelle patriarkalske historiefortælling, hvor mandlige historikere fortæller om mandlige historiske personer og ... Read more

    RM 40.89

  • Die Macht der Worte

    Ideologien und Sprache im 19. Jahrhundert

    by Horst Dieter Schlosser ...
    Erneut begibt sich der renommierte Sprachforscher Horst Dieter Schlosser auf die Suche nach der Wirkmacht von Worten und Sprachbildern. Nach seinem Buch über die "Sprache unterm Hakenkreuz" betrachtet er diesmal die wichtigen Leitbilder und Schlüsselbegriffe des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der große Einfluss von Sprache auf politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungsprozesse wird in historischen Analysen ... Read more

    RM 131.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buryat Intellectuals in Empire and Revolution

    Edited by Melissa Chakars, Nikolay Tsyrempilov ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    This book takes a deeper look at the history of the Russian Empire and the USSR from the perspective of ethno-national minorities. It focuses on Buryat intellectuals who traveled and worked across Eurasia, sometimes crossing international borders into Europe, China, Mongolia, and Tibet.The chapters cover a wide geographic space and address broad themes such as nationalism, identity, modernity, ... Read more

    RM 243.04

  • L'Humanité préhistorique

    by Jacques de Morgan ...
    Les études relatives à la préhistoire de l'homme, à cette phase de son évolution pour laquelle aucun document écrit ne vient guider les recherches, bien qu'elles soient nées depuis bientôt un siècle, sont encore dans l'enfance. D'une part nos investigations, bien sommaires encore, hélas! ne portent que sur un petit nombre de régions, d'autre part nous ne possédons aucun terme de comparaison ... Read more

    RM 11.72 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Founding Fathers Reader

    by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin ...
    Series series The Essential Readers
    A collection of writings by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America containing: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton & John Jay & James Madison The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine The Writings Of Thomas Paine - Volume 3 (1791-1804) by ... Read more

    RM 7.80

  • Kashmir’s Contested Pasts

    Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination

    by Chitralekha Zutshi ...
    A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each ... Read more

    RM 172.89

  • The Bivocal Nation

    Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire

    by Nutsa Batiashvili ...
    This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history. This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. The volume ... Read more

    RM 101.79

  • Approaches to Global History

    To See the World Whole

    Edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present century and, taken together, show the development of the discipline, providing a solid historiographical, theoretical and methodological overview that will be invaluable for students. The collection gives a unique sense of ... Read more

    RM 164.99

  • Все улицы Петербурга. История названий улиц и проспектов, рек и каналов, мостов и островов

    by Алексей Владимирович, Алексей Ерофеев ...
    Series series Улицы Петербурга
    Книга известных краеведов, членов Топонимической комиссии Санкт-Петербурга, повествует об истории названий улиц, площадей, островов, мостов, рек и каналов Петербурга — а через нее и об истории города и страны, поскольку она отразилась в названиях. В справочнике объяснено происхождение каждого городского имени — существующего сейчас и когда-либо существовавшего раньше — и рассказано о том, что с ... Read more

    RM 41.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Limits of Westernization

    American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

    by Jon Davidann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century ... Read more

    RM 329.29

  • Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain

    Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

    Edited by Charles H. Pence ...
    Series series Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
    This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of quantified, statistical social science came into being. Such innovations were quickly marshaled for use ... Read more

    RM 290.09

  • 十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受

    by 孙柏 ...
    中国现代戏剧的发生和晚清到民国初年的中西戏剧文化交流有着极为密切而直接的关系。然而，长期以来，学术界对于这一时段中西戏剧文化交流史的认识和理解存在着相当大的误区，其原因主要是在于我们习惯性地把西方戏剧看作一个连续一致的整体，以易卜生式的戏剧作为现代戏剧唯一合法的存在形态，因而完全没有注意到这样一个基本事实，即清末出访欧洲的国人所观看和接受的实际是十九世纪西方的主流戏剧，它属于可称之为“维多利亚时代戏剧”的完全不同的剧场史范畴。本书的基本目标就是希望通过重新检阅晚清国人出访欧洲留下的观剧笔记材料，对中西戏剧交流史上这一被遗忘甚至可以说是有意无意被抹去的段落予以发覆。它的一方面的工作是通过对中文和英语原始史料进行参证阅读，复原十九世纪英国以及欧洲戏剧的历史真实景况；另一方面则聚焦于晚清国人的接受层面，不仅还原这些丰富史料中所记载的基于切实感受的观剧所得，而且提请注意史料撰述者如何以前现代中国既有的 ... Read more

    RM 33.46