History
The Book-Makers: A History Of The Book In 18 Remar...
JOD 27.50
This is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-..
The Broken China Dream
JOD 25.50
A provocative book that demystifies China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hoped When China embarked on its t..
The Buried
JOD 24.00
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He ..
The Byzantine Empire: An Enthralling Overview of t...
JOD 15.00
The Byzantine Empire: A Thousand Years of Power, Drama, and Legacy An epic story of emperors, intrigue, and a forgotten empire that shaped the modern world. Whether you’re a curious reader, student, or history lover, this is your gateway to one of the most fascinating empires of all time. While E..
The Children Of Ash And Elm: A History Of The Viki...
JOD 19.00
The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, ..
The Chinese Myths
JOD 16.50
The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture. This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many around the world are familiar with some aspects of Chinese..
The CIA: An Imperial History
JOD 27.50
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to sup..
The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy
JOD 14.50
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts t..
The Cold War
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In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International Communism seemed everywhere on the all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of t..
The Cut Out Girl
JOD 11.50
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, a..
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Des...
JOD 33.00
Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change and European imperial expansion. Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in Damascus. A..
The Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso:...
JOD 27.50
This luxurious hardback edition presents Dante''s celebrated work, The Divine Comedy, with opulent gold cover embossing, striking illustrated page edges and 135 classic illustrations by Gustave Doré. Dante''s Divine Comedy is regarded as a masterpiece of medieval literature, telling the story of Da..