Empire Books

The Victorian era saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasur...

Concluding part of John Grainger's unique trilogy narrating the rise and fall of the Seleukid Empire.

Reducere. Regarded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as holy scripture detailing God's revelation to Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon is one...

How citizens became immigrants: Britain's failure to create a post-imperial nation.

Reducere. "Kings Dethroned" is a history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century. From Copernicus to Einstein, thi...

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

Reducere. The first comprehensive written history of Shotokan karate in any language In this completely updated edition of the classic bestseller, Randall Ha...

Christian Jacq, author of the international triumphs Ramses and The Stone of Light, brings the people and passions of ancient Egypt to life in an e...

Reducere. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Gra...

Reducere. This excellent work, with more than 800 photos for ease of use, is designed to help students get the most out of the study and training of the five...

Reducere. Determined to stake their claim on the dark waters, renegade Vampirates are expanding. But the Pirate Federation and the once-neutral Nocturnal Vam...

Reducere. More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, "the Rogue who ruled Omaha, " was a master of the devious. Unli...

Reducere. DescriptionClaims of Reincarnationis one of the foremost works to have been published in India during the latter part of the twentieth century. Dr....

Reducere. Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Qu...

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in ...

DescriptionBritain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian an...

What is a curved blade? Why would I want to carry one? What are the differences between a curved blade and a straight edge? Why carry a curved edge...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

Reducere. Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague ...

The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study ...

A comprehensive, well-illustrated account of the emperor Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Colleen Taylor SenIllust...

Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

The epic story of the first Greco-Persian War and the Persian invasion of Europe and Greece.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Manousos E K...

The Mughal empire (1526 1857) has long been viewed as a wonderland of unimaginable treasure; it was in fact the mightiest Islamic empire in the his...

Full military biography of Prince Eugene, the leading Habsburg commander during the wars against the Ottomans and the French.Publisher: Pen & Sword...

Reducere. A world Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion and trainer of many top Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighters, Rigan Machado reveals the techniq...

Reducere. With the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the I...

The former BBC correspondent, Martin Bell, gives a graphic and personal account of his National Service with the Suffolk Regiment in the 1950s. Bas...

Detailed descriptions of the British Empire's worldwide fortress system.

Describes the events leading up to the French invasion of Egypt, and the disastrous Battle of the Nile.Illustrations: 1x16 colour plates

Reducere. Each generation produces only a handful of great fighters, and Mike Swain and Chuck Jefferson are with- out doubt two of the finest of this gen- er...

Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts w...

Reducere. My forbidden husband.I kissed my father's best friend and it kind of didn't go well.Not only because he's eighteen years older than me-but he also ...

Reducere. Shorin Ryu is one of the world's major Karate styles. Created and developed by Okinawan masters, this style mixes the traditions and experiences of...

Reducere. My Boss. My Sin.A woman on the run.A hard man with a dark past.A fateful encounter.How wrong could things go?From the internationally bestselling a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Encylopedia of Jeet Kune Do is designed to serve as a resource guide, not only for the person training in JKD, but for any martial a...

Description"A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I ...

Reducere. The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of r...

Publisher: Archive Media Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jean-Roch CoignetIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 280Publication d...

Minutes before he is asked to investigate a murder involving renowned poetress and courtesan Xuanji, Judge Dee receives a cryptic note attached to ...

Reducere. This work reflects the system of education from the School of Dai Sensei Meitoku Yagi named the Meibukan. The Meibukan, in an educational sense, or...

Reducere. She's off limits. He has none.There's a girl.Beautiful. Popular. Fake.And my obsession.My fall.Probably my damnation.Did that stop me? Do I care? N...

Reducere. DescriptionEmpress Celene of Orlais rose to the throne of the most powerful nation in Thedas through wisdom, wit, and ruthless manipulation. Now th...

Reducere. A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian a...

Reducere. The Encylopedia of Jeet Kune Do is designed to serve as a resource guide, not only for the person training in JKD, but for any martial artist since...

The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brother...

A groundbreaking study that shatters longstanding assumptions about the nature and origins of the Russian RevolutionPublisher: Haymarket BooksAutho...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts a...

Reducere. Last Western Empire A History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Anthony Gronowicz. The United States, founded as an extension of the British Empire, never ...

Explodes the myth that after Trafalgar, Martello towers and other coastal-defence infrastructure were unnecessary.Illustrations: 70 colour illustra...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

Reducere. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe conclusion to Ian C. Esslemont's epic fantasy Path to Ascendancy trilogy--a prequel story set in the New York Times bestselling Mala...

Reducere. This work reflects the system of education from the School of Dai Sensei Meitoku Yagi named the Meibukan. The Meibukan, in an educational sense, or...

Reducere. A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose...

Reducere. The New Testament Gospels came into existence in a world ruled by Roman imperial power. Their main character, Jesus, is crucified on a Roman cross ...

Reducere. In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States' deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known ...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

Reducere. Celebrate the legacy of The Empire Strikes Back with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on ...

Reducere. A world Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion and trainer of many top Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighters, Rigan Machado reveals the techniq...

An action-packed narrative of Roman imperial politics, from Constantine's empire to the destruction of Roman Italy across 363 to 568 AD.

From Syria and Iraq to Ukraine, from AfPak to Libya, from Iran to Russia, and from the Persian Gulf to China, foreign correspondent Pepe Escobar, a...

Reducere. A landmark work in biblical interpretation explores the relation between two competing "religions"the religion of "creation" and the religion of "e...

Reducere. Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's fi...

To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom's future is e...

Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of Europe...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...