A Living Islamic City - Fez and Its Preservation by Titus Burckhardt; Jean-Louis Michon (Editor); Joseph A. Fitzgerald (Editor); Jane Casewit (Translator)
$40.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez in particular and Morocco in general. These newly translated ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano Da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
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Category: History
An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city' ...Show more
The Auschwitz Photographer by Luca Crippa; Maurizio Onnis
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Category: History
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A t ...Show more
Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
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Category: History
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigm ...Show more
Eyewitness RAF - The Experience of War, 1939-1945 by James Goulty
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Life in the RAF as it was Experienced by the Air and Ground Crew Who Served During the Second World War, Based on the Vivid Recollections of a Wide Range of Servicemen and Women, Gives the Reader an Inside View of Every Aspect of an Individual's Career in the RAF During Wartime, Covers Recruitment, Trai ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
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Category: History
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
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Category: History
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...Show more
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
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Category: History
Tells the Greek story through the interconnecting lives of the men and women who shaped its politics and literature, its science and philosophy, its art and sportThe political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civili ...Show more
The Sultan and the Queen - The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by Jerry Brotton
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Category: History
When Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. Now England's key markets would be closed to her Protestant merchants. To complicate matters the staunchly Catholic king of Spain was determined to destroy her, bolstered by the gold pouring in from ...Show more
Bombshells - Five Women Who Set the Fifties on Fire by Shar Daws
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with the most notorious blondes of all time: Ruth Elli ...Show more
Petra Revealed. History, Civilization and Monuments of the City Carved into the Rock by Fabio Bourbon
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
- An updated text by one of the greatest expert of history of Petra and a rich, comprehensive apparatus of images (photos, plans and maps) that help a reader to know one of the most important, fascinating ancient city of our civilization The ancient city of Petra, in what is now southwest Jordan, has lo ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: History
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. B ...Show more