Horrible Histories finally turns its attention to Football. Read all about footballs beginnings in the Middle Ages all the way to the First World War and its famous Christmas day match, plus awful injuries, silly supporters and not forgetting women...Loe edasi...
Discover the extraordinary story of the United States of America from its fight for independence to its 250th anniversary. This captivating and richly illustrated book takes you on a year-by-year journey through US history, starting with...Loe edasi...
David and Pat Alexander, Caryn A. Reeder, N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird, Nancy Guthrie, Esau McCaulley, Lucy Peppiatt, Craig Bartholomew, Richard Bauckham, John Goldingay...
The best book to have next to your Bible.From the history and design of the temple in Jerusalem to Gods relationship with the universe, youll find it here. The land, culture, battles, feast days, heroes, and villains of...Loe edasi...
Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book, and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes.This meticulously curated selection of 40 m...Loe edasi...
When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from history’s great explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his engravings captivated the European imagination with freshly discovered landscapes, cust...Loe edasi...
Cartographies of Catastrophes is an in-depth exploration of how disasters, whether due to wars or to natural calamities, have been documented and mapped over the past two centuries. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians,...Loe edasi...
Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Emily Forster, Matilda Holmes, Mark McKerracher, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Elizabeth Stroud, Richard Thomas
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198878520)
The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Massey University Press, ISBN-13: 9781991309068)
In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner-city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south. Updated regularly over...Loe edasi...
Formally inaugurated in Potsdam in 1933, the Third Reich was regarded by Hitler as the greatest in a line of might German empires. His mystical belief that this empire would last a thousand years proved unfounded, but not before a world war which res...Loe edasi...
A cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps of England and Wales. Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in Tudor England, maps were rare. Al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781639734283)
From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history. From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten colle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: British Library Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780712355643)
Beautifully illustrated, large format volume accompanying the British Librarys major autumn exhibition. Through a selection of expert essays and lushly illustrated features, the cartographic histories of espionage, strategy and privileged knowledge...Loe edasi...
Discover the worlds most remote and mysterious islands in this beautifully designed book. Spanning continents and cultures, it explores exotic, hard-to-reach locations with an international appeal. Divided into four sections-Strange, Scary, Remote,...Loe edasi...
Discover the Civitates orbis terrarum, a vintage jewel in urban cartography. Featuring town plans, birds-eye views, maps and evocative city scenes across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, this is an unrivalled panorama of city living, and mapp...Loe edasi...
The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities....Loe edasi...
Every map tells a story and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps. Every map tells a story—and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps. From Babylonian clay ta...Loe edasi...
