History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time--from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and

Silence - A Christian History (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

Unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. This book considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus' brief

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

The Reformation: A History (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback)

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning history of the Reformation--from the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity At a time when men and women were prepared to kill--and be killed--for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the

Thomas Cromwell - A Life (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History (Benjamin Sandra)(Paperback)

Take a tour through the Mediterranean's largest island in this first and only history of Sicily for general readers--perfect for armchair travelers, historians, and anyone planning their next Italian vacation. The emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who

China - A History (Keay John)(Paperback / softback)

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single

Life: an Unauthorized Biography (Fortey Richard)(Paperback / softback)

A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science

Tudor Church Militant - Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

For the Winner (Hauser Emily)(Paperback / softback)

Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had ever seen. One woman fought alongside them. Abandoned at birth on the slopes of Mount Pelion, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to the

Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (De Landa Manuel)(Paperback)

More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived

The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years (McGuckin John Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the Christian movement during its first thousand years. The Path of Christianity takes readers on a journey from the

Jerusalem: The Biography (Montefiore Simon Sebag)(Paperback)

The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs - Impossible to put down.... Vastly

On the Edge - Ireland's off-shore islands: a modern history (Ferriter Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

The first ever really honest account of the reality of Ireland's offshore

Thousand Years of A London Street - Denmark Street (Read Mike)(Paperback / softback)

This book is intended to be the first of a series documenting London Streets and a thousand years of their respective histories. Clearly some routes were only trackways, pathways or even fields but where Londoners have existed, worked, fought, traded, played, lived and died on the site it's

Thomas Cranmer: A Life (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback)

Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation--and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. This is the first major biography of him for more than three decades, and the first for a century

All Things Made New - Writings on the Reformation (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

The reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history, and has remained one of the most contested. This book explores a turbulent and endlessly fascinating

Cinema West Sussex - The First 100 Years (Eyles A)(Paperback / softback)

A history of cinema in West

Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Bloom Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

In its first thousand years--from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth--Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and

For The Most Beautiful (Hauser Emily)(Paperback / softback)

Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. It was a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if there was more to this epic conflict? In this novel, the women of Troy tell their

Poland - A History (Zamoyski Adam)(Paperback / softback)

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (Holmes George)(Paperback)

Covering a thousand years of history, this richly illustrated volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Written by noted scholars and based on the latest research, it offers the most authoritative account of life in medieval Europe from the fall

Beatles - All These Years - Volume One: Tune In (Lewisohn Mark)(Paperback / softback)

* First part of the definitive three-volume biography of The