History Man, Paperback

6, 000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and the...

Reducere. My National Service (1955-1957): The Making of a Man is the story of young man who joined the British Army as an Infantry Soldier and served for tw...

New paperback - 'Where he saw virtue, his contemporaries saw betrayal...What could he possibly have done to make a success of his reign? He was, it...

The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Admired by some of the finest artists of the period, and familiar to millions around the world, over 100 of Matania's pictures are brought together...

*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Ni...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading To possess and develop western North America became...

The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...

How an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Peter ConradiNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 20...

The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring Americ...

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain's first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they ...

Reducere. Before the first light of dawn on the morning of June twenty-second, 1941, Oskar Scheja stood on the western shore of the Bug River, looking to the...

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war. Soon to be a majo...

Radical journalist Laura Flanders exposes the seedy, cynical and power hungry history of the women in the Bush administration. "Bushwomen": women a...

A Picador Classic edition of Bradbury's masterpiece. 'The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time' Auberon Waugh

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until ...

A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives, updated with a new foreword from the author

From 'Space Oddity', his dark vision of mankind's voyage into the unknown terrain of space, to the Scary Monsters album, Doggett examines in detail...

The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective...

This is a new edition of Frederick Treves book with the text having been editted to remove typographical errors. The story of Merrick's (the Elepha...

Reducere. DescriptionBen really did not run away from home. He was still in the neighborhood, only it was 125 years earlier in time and the Battle of Gettysb...

Reducere. St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing the work that his brother St...

DescriptionTo celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, the inaugural winner now returns to printNewby deserved, and deserves, more attention.—Th...

Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This book discusses...

Reducere. Farris Lind was a fighter pilot, a crop duster, and in his later life, a victim of polio. He had a natural gift for promotion and an ability to tur...

Reducere. A BOWIE PRIMER: ERA/MAN/KNIFE presents concise information on the times in which Jim Bowie lived, biographical information on the man himself, and ...

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

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy.

Reducere. James Morris Webb argues that the black man was the father of civilization, born in the land of Egypt, and that the different branches of science a...

Reducere. Charles Darwin is one of the most influential and famous scientists in history, and after coming up with the theory of evolution, he wrote extensiv...

Reducere. Ambushed in the wilderness along with French missionaries, this early pioneer in America survived torture and captivity to become an esteemed advis...

An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on natu...

Reducere. James Morris Webb (born 1874) was a Christian preacher from USA who was active ca 1910-1930, related to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, whi...

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 ...