(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241770573)
A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history, now is the time when we need to heed them, so that we do not end up in another Great Power war because of the fatal comb...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197814659)
A distinctive collection of essays capturing Lawrence Freedmans insightful analysis across war, strategy, and foreign policy and providing a unique view of the key thinkers that shaped history.One of the worlds foremost sch...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024** **A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of Americas long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hus...Loe edasi...
The Library of Ancient Wisdom pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipals library... which not only bring kings and queens to life, but also priests, traders...Loe edasi...
Sari: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674302860)
Umberto Grassi recovers a radical critique, suppressed by the Inquisition. A wave of 16th-18th century Italians claimed that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomy-sexual practice reserved for the divine. The heresy was politically poten...Loe edasi...
The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world’s largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that—while still the largest on the European continent—is almost...Loe edasi...
Truly eye-opening . . . The most accessible and coherent introduction to Chomskys ideas Irish Times The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of spreading democracy except wreak havoc across...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking and essential work of history the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Familys connection with the transatlantic slave trade...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780593831373)
From a pair of Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters comes a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this corner...Loe edasi...
This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rs death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rs funera...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836740407)
A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel-- Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Papp...Loe edasi...
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026** **Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature** A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South Americas best-known trans men, Antonio de Erau...Loe edasi...
The propagandists share resourcesthe troll farms that promote one dictators propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of anotherand themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America....Loe edasi...
ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDINGAND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on...Loe edasi...
The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The world has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H. Gombrich brings to life the full...Loe edasi...
Occasionally scandalous and always fascinating, a cornucopia of surprising and little-told yarns from the classical world. Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Gr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244434)
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Sutherland House Inc., ISBN-13: 9781998365463)
“Dancing makes you feel heaps better” – DianaIn 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess...Loe edasi...
