Napoleon in Egypt
"Europe is a molehill... " Everything here is worn out... tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved." -- Napoleon Napoleon's invasion of... See More
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Quick View"Europe is a molehill... " Everything here is worn out... tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved." -- Napoleon Napoleon's invasion of... See More
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Quick ViewLeonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia -- three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they... See More
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Quick ViewA sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that... See More
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Quick View"Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character... I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization." -- Katherine A. Powers... See More
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Quick View1917 Private Strang is fighting for survival in the trenches of France. As a young man he is finding it hard to adapt to a life where his sole purpose is to inflict death upon an unseen enemy. He thinks his struggles... See More
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Quick ViewMarseilles, 1891: as Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in hospital, his mind wanders fitfully - taking him back to Commune-era Paris, and the scandalous life he led with Verlaine. But, above all, he is transported to Harar... See More
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Quick View**One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations* The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. In 1869... See More
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Quick ViewEminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our... See More
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Quick ViewThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty -- all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the... See More
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Quick ViewA dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of... See More
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Quick ViewPeter Hunter joins the SS Circe, an old cargo boat, and attempts to plunge himself into the harsh realities of life at sea. Unhappy with himself and his identity he finds it hard to fit in with the rest of the crew. But... See More
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Quick ViewBy the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit... See More
For those still recovering from the financial meltdown of 2008, it may be small consolation to know that they have many generations of predecessors. Investors seem never to learn the lessons of financial bubbles and their... See More
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Quick ViewThe Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented... See More
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Quick ViewAn original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy... See More