Five Hundred Years of Printing (Steinberg S. H.)(Paperback)

Five Hundred Years of Printing (Steinberg S. H.)(Paperback)

A concise and scholarly but entertaining account of the relation between printing and civilization. -- British Printer.This highly readable survey traces the history of printing with movable type from its 15th-century beginnings in Gutenberg's workshop to the technical advances of the 20th century

A History of Algeria (McDougall James)(Paperback)

Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall

Chaika: The Coffin Princess, Vol. 1 (Sakaki Ichirou)(Paperback)

Five years of inconceivable peace after two hundred years of war left erstwhile saboteur Toru Acura without a job or a meaning in life--until he saves a mysterious wizard with a coffin on her back. But when the coffin-wielding, silver-haired Chaika Trabant hires Toru and his sister, Akari, to

Fragments (Heraclitus)(Paperback)

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent

The Age of Empires (Aldrich Robert)(Paperback)

For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they produced. Empires evoke potent images: Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, and the gallery

The World of the Celts (James Simon)(Paperback)

Warlike, flamboyant, courageous--the ancient Celts had a fearsome reputation. For five hundred years they dominated the lands north of the Alps, before being largely absorbed into the Roman Empire. But Celtic culture survived and achieved a glorious flowering in the post-Roman, early Christian era

Salonica, City of Ghosts - Christians, Muslims and Jews (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi

Arms and Armour of the Joust (Capwell Tobias)(Paperback)

Jousting is the most iconic form of mounted combat. For more than five hundred years, the sport itself, and the chivalric culture that surrounded it, took on almost mythical qualities. Here, Tobias Capwell explains the glitz and glamour of a sport that attracted enormous popular audiences

The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Hutchison Elizabeth Quay)(Paperback)

The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians

The Clash of Economic Ideas (White Lawrence H.)(Paperback)

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events to

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gdel, and the History of Archetypes (Robertson Robin)(Paperback)

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half later, Plato argued that the world we live in is but a poor copy of the world of ideas. Neither realized that their numbers and ideas might also be the

Hundred Years War Vol 2 - Trial By Fire (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the

Valley - A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family (Benson Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Nolyn (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

Now a New York Times Bestseller & Amazon Editor's Pick!After more than five hundred years of exile, the heir to the empyre is wary about his sudden reassignment to active duty on the Goblin War's front lines. His assignment to rescue an outpost leads to a dead-end canyon deep inside enemy

War and Gold - A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt (Kwarteng Kwasi)(Paperback / softback)

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires (Peakman Julie)(Pevná vazba)

Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women

The History Manifesto (Guldi Jo)(Paperback)

How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present?

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

The First Spiritual Exercises: Four Guided Retreats (Hansen Michael)(Paperback)

For almost five hundred years, the Spiritual Exercises have been available only to priests and religious who could spend thirty days in silence under the guidance of a spiritual director. Now they are available as four retreats on inner peace to people in every stage of spiritual

Utopia (More Thomas)(Paperback)

Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men

Sorcery for Beginners: A Simple Help Guide to a Challenging & Arcane Art (Harry Matt)(Paperback)

Five-hundred years ago, sorcery began to fade from the world. As technology prevailed, combustion engines and computers replaced enchanted plows and spell books. Real magicians were hunted almost to extinction. Science became the primary system of belief, and the secrets of spell-casting were

Card Games

Card playing has been a popular pastime for more than five hundred years -- and there is still no better way to bring a family together. This compact yet comprehensive volume contains the rules and strategies for a wealth of fun and action-packed card games that the entire household can enjoy --

Joan of Arc (Stanley Diane)(Paperback)

Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a