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Lieutenant Nunby Catalina De Erauso
Beacon Press 2011; US$ 15.00One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades. more...
I Have Lived a Thousand Yearsby Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2011; US$ 5.99A Simon & Schuster eBook more...
The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825by Simon Dixon; William Beik; T. C. W. Blanning
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 27.00Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history, as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political, social, cultural and intellectual life during its emergence as a great power. more...
Decisions for War, 1914-1917by Richard F. Hamilton; Holger H. Herwig
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 20.00Decisions for War focuses on the question: why did World War I happen? The book shows how in each country, the decision to enter the war was made by only a handful of individuals - monarchs, ministers, military people, party leaders, ambassadors, and others. more...
Making English Moralsby M. J. D. Roberts; Margot Finn; Keith Wrightson; Colin Jones
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 37.00Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. This book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation, and the responses they aroused. more...
Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessityby Nicholas D. Jackson
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 36.00The first full account of the famous debate between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall. more...
The Heads of Religious Housesby David M. Smith
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 78.00Final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists from 1377 to 1540. more...
Kosovoby Tim Judah
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 12.95c Preface: Why Kosovo?. Who are the Albanians?. Who are the Serbs?. Why is Kosovo so important to Serbs?. A Brief History. Kosovo in World War Two. Kosovo in Yugoslavia. The Beginning of the end. Who was Milosevic? How did he use Kosovo?. The birth of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The UN years. 1999 - ?. Who wants what?. Kosovo and the Region. Kosovo and the World. Conclusion more...
The History of Rome, Books 1-5by Valerie M. Warrior; Livy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 13.50In addition to Valerie Warrior's crisp, fluent translation of the first five books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita , this edition features a general introduction to Livy and his work, extensive foot-of-the-page notes offering essential contextual information, and a chronology of events. Three appendices?on the genealogies of the most prominent political figures in the early Republic, Livy's relationship with Augustus, and Livy's treatment of religion?offer additional insight into the author and the early history of Rome. more...
The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 13.45The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively... more...