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Herbert Allen Giles - China and the Manchus (2007).jpg
It is said that no fewer than thirty thousand adherents were executed before the trouble was finally suppressed; from which statement it is easy to gather that under whatever form the White Lily Society may have been originally initiated, its activities were now of a much ...
Bo Gräslund - Early Humans and Their World (2005).jpg
Summarizing modern research on early hominid evolution from the apes six million years ago to the emergence of modern humans, this book is the first to present a synthetic discussion of many aspects of early human life.
John Paul Rathbone - The Sugar King of Havana; The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo.jpg
The rise and fall of sugar trader Julio Lobo becomes a window into prerevolutionary Cuba, the mechanics of building an economic empire--and the author's own personal history--in this atmospheric biography by Rathbone, deputy head of the Financial Times's Lex column and ...
Edward Dolnick - The Rescue Artist; A True Story of Art.jpg
The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. The theft was carried out with almost comical ease at Norway's National Gallery in Oslo on the very morning that ...
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Since its construction 4,500 years ago for Pharaoh Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained an engineering mystery. According to Egyptologist Brier (The Murder of Tutankhamen) and architect Houdin, the monument was designed by Khufu's brother Hemienu, an ...
Jon Queijo - Breakthrough!; How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World (2010).jpg
"A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness." -–Matt Ridley, author of Genome10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...and the Remarkable Human Discoveries ...
Lidija Bakaric - Prehistoric amber and glass from Prozor in Lika and Novo Mesto in Dolenjska (2006).jpg
This 2006 bilingual (Croation/English) cooperative exhibition catalogue from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Croatia), the Museum of Dolenjsk in Novo Mesto (Slovenia), and the Croation Natural History Museum both explains the cultural significance of amber and ...
John Mansbridge - Graphic History of Architecture (1999).jpg
What is a hammer-beam roof? Where does a voissoir fit in an arch? What churches did Nicholas Hawksmoor design? Now architecture students and others interested in the history of the built environment can consult a single reference book to find the answers to these and to ...
Eric P. Uphill - Egyptian Towns and Cities (2008).jpg
This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the Hellenistic period. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharaohs in ...
Rudyard Kipling - Kipling Abroad; Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil (2010).jpg
Rudyard Kipling's genius for evoking the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian and later readers to the drama and exoticism of the East. Kipling’s poetry, journalism, and letters also encapsulated ...
Warhammer Historical - Allen Curtis - Armies of Antiquity; A Supplement for Ancient Battles (1999).jpg
Armies of Antiquity contains army lists for use with the Warhammer Ancient Battles rules. The lists cover all of the most famous armies of the ancient world, from the chariot armies of ancient Egypt through to armies of crusading knights.New rules to use in your Warhammer ...
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This volume deals with the chronology of Ancient Egypt from the fourth millennium until the Hellenistic Period. An initial section reviews the foundations of Egyptian chronology, both ancient and modern, from annals and kinglists to C14 analyses of archaeological data. ...
Adrienne Mayor - The First Fossil Hunters; Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (2000).jpg
The history of paleontology, as it is usually seen, starts with the work of French naturalist Georges Cuvier some 200 years ago. Mayor, a classical folklorist, moves the date back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. "The ancients collected, measured, displayed, ...
Thomas M. Kane - Ancient China and Post Modern War (2007).jpg
Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ...
Miklos Lojko - Meddling in Middle Europe; Britain And the 'lands Between' 1919-1925 (2005).jpg
Addresses the history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojko argues that the absence of trust in the political settlement and the discrediting of the ...
Maureen Perkins - The Reform of Time; Magic and Modernity (2001).jpg
The decline of magic is generally discussed in the context of the rise of scientific knowledge and the spread of education. In this original critique, Maureen Perkins challenges such interpretations and argues that the nineteenth-century marginalisation of ...