An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, Paperback - Jason Xidias

Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies. Fukuyama believ...

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Written amid the political fallout and 'war on terror' following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York-Dabashi's adopted city-in 2001, Iran: A Peo...

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course of his life turned in 1774, w...

A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets ar...

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States "Engrossing. . . . Astonishing...

Reducere. Vladimir Solovyov's philosophical classic explores the nature of war and battle in human society, and the potential manifestations of the Antichris...

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DescriptionWales Book of the Year 2018. Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. The opening poem...

DescriptionFrom the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman clef takes place ...

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This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more building. The Villa Shodhan and the Pa...

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What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the str...

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A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philo...

An active-participant account of the final ten years of Swindon Works - bringing to an end 147 years of railway engineering

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned of...

Focusing on Macau's unique development at the crux of European and Chinese empires, and the role it plays as a mirror for Chinese intentions vis-a-...

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of modern times. From its ruin rose new countries including Syria and Turkey. This...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carroll QuigleyCarroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the histo...

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Reducere. The End of an Era provides a glimpse into the former Nova Scotian Town of Canso in its final days as an independent municipality. With photographs ...

Publisher: HalsgroveAuthor(s): Rob HooleIllustration(s): black & white illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2012Dimensions...

"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED O...

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Originally published in 1866, Civil Disobedience asks when - and in what circumstances - an individual should actively oppose government and its ju...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Lea YpiNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

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Like Foucault's earlier works, The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social conc...

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A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what chi...

Wildlife warrior, professor of snakes, entertainer, Olympian: John Cann is a truly remarkable Australian. Written in John's engaging and affable vo...

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Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US....

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IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it aga...

A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction - and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planetPublisher: The History Press Lt...

Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways -...

Focusing on the differences he observed in economic behavior between Catholics and Protestants, Weber's seminal 1905 work examines the role that mo...

Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the lo...

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