A fascinating journey through more than 5,000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers, and maritime environments.
Das Buch beleuchtet den Aufstieg der Sachsen von einer als Piraten bekannten Kriegervolk im vierten Jahrhundert über ihre Konfrontation mit dem christlichen Glauben während der Herrschaft Karls des Großen im achten Jahrhundert bis hin zu Otto dem Großen, einem Sachsen, der etwa 160 Jahre später zum Kaiser gekrönt wurde.
What if the greatest human containment zone in history isn't a myth, but a scientifically verifiable geological quarantine waiting to be rediscovered by modern orbital telemetry?
America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americansand explains how it should shape our politics today.
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in America s 250-year history' The TimesIn the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world s richest and most powerful union.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply important testament for Ashkenazi Jews.
Essential reading Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy Possibly the best-timed book ever Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg Gold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty.
BOOK 9 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did the Allies attack on D-Day?
FEATURED IN BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2026A NEW SCIENTIST AND NPR SUMMER READING PICKAS RECOMMENDED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES Data shaped empires.
The first complete history of Britain s mountains, capturing their beauty, tragedy and the pivotal role of these dramatic landscapes in the nation s past and future'A glorious survey of Britain's high places' GUARDIAN'Rich, dramatic [and] eye-opening' INDEPENDENT A definitive history of our rocky isles from the most magisterial and far-seeing perspective.
This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the work of French cultural icon Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) for criminologists, sociologists, and social theorists.
A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer.
A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'.
As Brexit reaches its final stretch, find a way to laugh through the pain and or celebrate the end with Ladybird's hilarious and essential guide, The Story of Brexit.
Wie Väter die Welt prägten – eine Geschichte von Macht, Männlichkeit und MythosAugustine Sedgewick begibt sich auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche durch die Geschichte der Vaterschaft – von den Anfängen menschlicher Gesellschaften über religiöse und politische Ordnungen bis hin zur Gegenwart.
Zwischen Glanz und Krise – mit Siegfried Kracauer durch die Weimarer RepublikTanzpaläste, Kaufhausfenster, Bestsellerlisten – der vielleicht schärfste Chronist der Goldenen Zwanziger Siegfried Kracauer sah in den Oberflächen der Weimarer Republik die Tiefe der Gesellschaft.
« Ten Myths about the First World War » is a book that meets an essential need: moving beyond clichés and simplifications that blur our understanding of the Great War.
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France s greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence.
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen – darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Jüdische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg für eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' für die systematische Zerstörung jüdischen Lebens und jüdischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world.
Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions of politics, religion and class that have defined modern Irish history.
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system - in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.
