The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World

Reducere. The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on t...

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the re...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.America emerged from ...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans and ourselv...

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Reducere. Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relatio...

Description"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nathaniel PhilbrickNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens...

Reducere. Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tell...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Neg...

Dealing with the imminent decline of cheap oil, this book shows how oil and war have been closely related in the 20th century. Tracing the crucial ...

Reducere. The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledg...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

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 ...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imagina...

Reducere. In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty year...

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...

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flo...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians ha...

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eva RosenIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x ...

Reducere. On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready ...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionGet a new perspective from the 'other half' of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, benefi...

Reducere. In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the ...

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Vandana ...

Reducere. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

DescriptionWhat the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung ...

Introducing an unforgettable protagonist destined to become a fantasy icon, The Justice of Kings is an unmissable debut where action, intrigue and ...

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.By combin...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Shashi TharoorNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 242 x 166 x 38Cover type: Hard...

Kant famously argues that our experience of the empirical world is shaped by our cognitive faculties. But an important part of this story is yet to...