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Joe Studwell

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Nigel Patterson

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible narrative that debunks Wester...

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Jeremy McInerney

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Nigel Patterson

Many who champion the idea of "Western Civilization" have only the loosest grasp of its history and of the Persian Wars, often portrayed as the heroic defense of "Western" values. Popular narratives frame these wars as East versus West, Greeks versus barbarians, with Greeks cast as defenders of freedom and Persians as cruel despots. This view echoes in pop culture, from textbooks to the graphic novel 300, where Leonidas of Sparta declares: "A new age has begun, an age of great dee...

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Terence Robertson

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Nigel Patterson

An ideal book for fans of Ian W. Toll, Gordon W. Prange, and James D. Hornfischer.On the evening of 11 February 1942 the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau left their Atlantic port. Twenty-four hours later they had made their way through the supposedly impenetrable English Channel to their German ports.The Times decried this action as a "mortifying blow to our pride in seapower", and the British people echoed their P...

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George Bruce

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Nigel Patterson

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Conflicts of Empire

Between 1824 and 1885 Britain and Burma fought in three deadly struggles.The first was the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history, the second was criticized at the time as being caused by gunboat diplomacy, and the third led to the removal of Burma's Konbaung dynasty and the incorporation of Burma into the British Raj.These wars were fraught with military blunders and incompetence.Why did the tensions arise initially and how did the first battles b...

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Stephen Gundle

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Nigel Patterson

The Italian Fascist dictator Mussolini was killed in 1945, his body exhibited upside down in Milan before an angry crowd. The repudiation by the people of the dictator who had led them to disaster was complete. But his story did not end there. The Duce continued to live on thanks to a legacy that was multi-faceted and complex.In Mussolini's Ghost Stephen Gundle explores the many aspects of Mussolini's strange afterlife, be it through the fate of his statues and the places ...

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David Field

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Nigel Patterson

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Medieval Saga

A gripping Medieval novel set in the twelfth century! Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, Alison Weir, and Anthony Riches.Three Royal brothers. One mysterious death. Who will take the crown?England, 1110When King William Rufus of England is killed mysteriously during a hunting accident in the New Forest in 1100, his younger brother Henry, who had been present, loses no time in riding hard to claim both the Treasury and the crown...

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David Field

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Nigel Patterson

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Medieval Saga

The thrilling Medieval Saga continues! Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, Alison Weir, and Anthony Riches.When one war ends, another begins . . .England, 1154. With King Henry II taking the throne, the long civil war that has ravaged England has finally come to an end.But conflict is now coming from overseas. Henry has inherited territories over the English Channel that are being contested by King Louis VII of ...

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A.G. Barnett

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Nigel Patterson

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Brock & Poole

A village of secrets finds its past lies waiting.When mourners gather in the village of Lower Gladdock, the grave is found to be already occupied. The victim is soon linked to a tragedy that tore the village apart five years ago and is handed over to the Bexford police to solve. Detective Sergeant Guy Poole is hoping to put his traumatic past behind him and settle into his new station at Bexford. Now history is threatening to raise its head again, and he has a murder case ...

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Nigel Patterson

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas of the discipline. His work is characterized by both breadth and unity: he writes powerfully about mind, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, politics, aesthetics, education, and more. And across those areas, his work is concerned with defending a view of human beings and their place in nature according to whi...

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Nir Arielli

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Nigel Patterson

A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shoresThe Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Rom...

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Isaac Deutscher

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Nigel Patterson

This three-part biography of Leon Trotsky was hailed by Graham Greene as one of "the greatest . . . in the English language"—a must listen for those interested in the history of Soviet Russia and international communism.Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolution...

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Nick Holmes

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Nigel Patterson

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Fall of the Roman Empire

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER ROME FELL?In The Inheritors of Rome**, Nick Holmes concludes his series on the Fall of the Roman Empire** with a bold and thought-provoking examination of the world that followed the fall.From the collapse of Roman civilization to the rise of Charlemagne's empire, from the explosive expansion of early Islam to the resilience of Byzantium, and from the devastation of the Vikings ...