The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, B...
Tom ReissBy the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history's great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar. Hi...
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance ...
Thomas CahillFrom the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History...
The Basque: History of the World
Mark KurlanskyThe buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbão aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ('A Basque or Navarrese would do in a French man for a copper coin') to current news items about ETA, the Basque n...
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Vo...
Alfred LansingA well-researched story recounts how explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew battled against almost insuperable odds to return to civilization after their ship Endurance sank near the South Pole in 1914. Read by Tim Piggott-Smith.
Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment...
James MacGregor Burns"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life t...
Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, th...
Brad GregoryWhen Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as ...
A Brief History of Italy: Tracing the...
Dominic HaynesJourney to the romantic land of Italy and meet the artists, warriors, and leaders who forever left their mark on Western culture. Perhaps no country has had such a lasting impact on Western culture as Italy. Whether it's the fresc...
Redskin and Cowboy A Tale of the Wes...
G. a. HentyThe principal part of the tale is laid among the cow-boys of the Western States of America, a body of men unrivalled in point of hardihood and devotion to work, as well as in reckless courage and wild daring. The picture I have given ...
The Death of Caesar: The Story of His...
Barry StraussWilliam Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected...
The Venetians: A New History: From Ma...
Paul StrathernNo Description
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, ...
Patrick WymanNo Description