Ghosts of Empire: A Ghost Novel, Paperback

New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors attacking people and carrying them away into the night. The originator of these...

Something's not right with the Ghost's friend Ginny... something happened to her in Cairo, out on the dig. Something that's related to a strange cu...

The United States finds itself locked in a diplomatic standoff with a British Empire who has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially...

Reducere. DescriptionKwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as B...

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global ...

Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is what makes us human.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): I...

From award-winning graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier comes a new story about family, friendship and hope. Cat and her family are moving to the coas...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even ...

*An Entertainment Weekly and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine's Top New Book of the New Decade*

A memorable memoir about childhood in India, by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. A wonderful evocation of a magical setting as se...

Exposes the policies that have led to American imperialism and the massive military deployment that accompanies it, suggesting that the US could su...

Reducere. Legacies were made to be rewritten. Assassin Hawes Madigan wants to do right--by his family, his organization, his city, and the man he's falling f...

Reducere. Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1922, white colonialists in Shanghai see themselves as an impregnable supreme race. But then Russians come and ruin the perfect world...

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

Reducere. An African Younghusband - the compelling life of a great adventurer.Ewart Grogan, 'the baddest and boldest of a bad bold gang' of settlers in Kenya...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always rai...

Reducere. Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke's Poison Wars continue with Hollow Empire, a fabulous epic fantasy adventure perf...

Reducere. Ghosts and Gold: My Story of Ghost Ranch is a first-person account of one of northern New Mexico's most spectacular and fascinating locations. View...

At the end of the First World War, British imperial power was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Ch...

Reducere. As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in the l...

Reducere. "An excellent start to a new series: fast-paced and engaging, with a properly epic setting and a cast of characters I look forward to seeing more o...

Reducere. A ghost-hunter's guide to Arizona's haunted hotels and inns. Provides eye-witness accounts, legendary stories, and unsolved mysteries at 29 open-to...

Three-time Spur Award winner Max McCoy combines fast-paced action, frontier history, and powerful family drama in this epic saga of life, love, and...

Follows the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent 16th century Venetian-Albanian family, illuminating subj...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history--for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the ...

As the "audacious and subversive"* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan's enemies is on...

A study of the Roman borders, their role as defenses and control points and their impact on the Roman empire as a whole.Publisher: Casemate Publish...

Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examin...

A fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our worldPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Max HaivenIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, black and whit...

Hope and Glory. Epic Stories of Empire and Commonwealth - Melissa Blackburn, Steve Humphries

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 ...