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Engineering the Pyramids
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94Using archaeological records and the basic principles of engineering, Dick Parry provides an account of the design history of the pyramids, the techniques and organisation needed and insights into why the pyramids were designed as they were. more...
Red Orchestra
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 27.00In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring?and least chronicled?stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo?s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who battled treacherous... more...
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 35.95Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their... more...
The Great African War
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006. more...
The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 34.95This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The main text here, the 'History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick', was written soon after the events described, and is a crucial, and much under-used source for the Third Crusade.... more...
Malcolm X
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 30.00Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History Hailed as "a masterpiece" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations,... more...
The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality
Bloomsbury Publishing 2001; US$ 99.95Covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and political developments which resulted in the mass murder of European Jews. more...
The Fall of the House of Labor
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 25.00The changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action. more...
God Interrupted
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 24.95Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In ... more...
Diana, A Cultural History
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 48.00This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class,... more...









