Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Crowley Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Crowley Roger)(Paperback / softback)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. This title tells an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance,

City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas (Crowley Roger)(Paperback)

'The rise and fall of Venice's empire is an irresistible story and Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.'--The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice's astounding

Aegypt (Crowley John)(Paperback / softback)

The acclaimed first novel in the Aegypt

Unfinished Empire - The Global Expansion of Britain (Darwin John)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked. This book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses

Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique (Radano Ronald)(Paperback)

Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood

Conqueror's Queen (Courtney Joanna)(Paperback / softback)

For William the Conqueror's bride, Mathilda, there is only one prize - the English

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback / softback)

Constantinople - The Last Great Siege, 1453 (Crowley Roger)(Paperback / softback)

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. This title deals with this

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Rappaport Erika)(Paperback)

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in

Forty Studies that Changed Psychology, Global Edition (Hock Roger)(Paperback / softback)

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 (Disney A. R.)(Paperback)

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d' tre and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth

Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From the North (Rutherford Alex)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in the gripping and brilliant Empire of the Moghul

Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia - Levi Roach

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce

Empire And Revolution - A Socialist History of the First World War (Sherry Dave)(Paperback / softback)

First Grammar - Wipe Clean Workbooks (Priddy Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Barbarians at the Wall - The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Mighty Dynamo (Crowley Kieran)(Paperback / softback)

It's Noah against the

Invention of Clouds - How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (Hamblyn Richard)(Paperback / softback)

A book about art, literature, science -- and

Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Trentmann Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more

how the first sparks became visible (Atangana Bekono Simone)(Paperback / softback)

Hungry Empire - How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World (Collingham Lizzie)(Paperback / softback)

Aleister Crowley and the Cult of Pan (Newman Paul)(Paperback / softback)

C How to Program, Global Edition (Deitel Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Wilken Robert Louis)(Paperback)

An authoritative and poignant account of the first millennium of Christian history How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of