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Behind the Wall - My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in th...

Bellaire

Berlin - Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berli...

Berlin - Gestern und heute / Yesterday and Today

Keine andere Stadt Mitteleuropas wandelte ihr Stadtbild in den vergangenen 100 Jahren schneller als Berlin. Zunächst war es die Entwicklu...

Berlin Now - The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the las...

Beyond Coal and Steel - A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal a...

Black American History For Dummies

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebra...

Black mother

Black record: Germans past and present

Blood on the Stone - Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade

'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa's bloody diamond...

Boon Island - A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism, First Edition

The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one o...

Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt

A concise history exploring one of the richest civilisations in human history

Brief Histories: Ancient Greece

A concise history exploring one of the richest civilisations in human history

British History

British History is a richly detailed and thorough reference book that presents an abundance of facts and figures on one of the most awe-i...

British prehistory

Broadcloth and Britches - The Santa Fe Trade

Hundreds of miles from its supply center in Chihuahua and just freed from the grip of Spain's mercantilist colonial policies, New Mexico ...

Bronze age tell settlements of the grat hungarian plain I.

Brothers: The Hidden History of The Kennedy Years

In a gripping political history that is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year, Salon.com founder David Talbot sheds a...

Bucked in the Yarn - The Unique Heritage of Coker Canvas - The Unique Heritage of Coker Canvas

For over three hundred years some of the world's most famous admirals, explorers, buccaneers, and aristocrats captained ships and luxury ...

Budapest 1956 - Locations of Drama. What Happened? Where? Why?

Budapest 1956 - what happened, where and why? Using a wide range of sources, both historical and modern, Bob Dent tells the story of the ...

Budapest dosszié-angol (The Budapest file)

Budapest Then & Now

California - A Bicentennial History

From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous a...

Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service

The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key citie...

Cape Coral

Many are surprised to discover that Cape Coral's history dates back further than the boom of the 1960s. Indeed, homesteader families were...

Caro-Kann defence

Carpathian disaster: Death of an army

Carpathian rhapsody I.

Carpathian rhapsody II.

Carpathian ustilaginales

Carthage

Causes and Consequences of Conflicts among the Nuer Clans in Gambella

This book is an initiative to explain the Nuer violent intra clans' conflicts in Gambella. The core objectives have been put forward as t...

Celtic Mythology

Central Asia in the Kushan period II.

Chernobyl Prayer

In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the ...

Chinese Heirs to Muhammad - Writing Islamic History in Early Modern China

How was the past imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China? Chen argues that this was a productive tim...

Chrysanthemums and their culture

Civilization and its discontents

Civilization of black Africa

Civilizations of Indus Valley and beyond

Civil liberties in Britain

Classical China

Classical India

Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis - Index and Introduction

Seit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung 1850 ist der Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis, das Urkundenbuch von Fulda, die wichtigste Quelle für Unte...

colonial - Switzerland's Global Entanglements

Die Schweiz ist seit dem 16. Jahrhundert global vernetzt und kolonial verflochten. Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick zu diesem aktuellen...

Colours of London - A History

Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colourised photographs from Dynamichro...

Compton

Compton is a city of myth and misunderstandings. Today, it is known as the city of "hip-hop dreams and gangsta fantasies." Its history, h...

Concise Encyclopaedia of Arabic Civilization

Conflict (Im)mobiles - Biographies of Mobility along the Ubangi River in Central Africa

Conflict mobiles are individuals whose (lack of) mobility is informed by violence. This manuscript is an ethnography of mobility based on...

Constantinople - Istanbul's Historical Heritage

This richly illustrated and thorougly researched book takes the reader through the history of a fascinating city. As the capital of two g...

Correspondence concerning claims against Great Britain - Volume VII

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya

Written by leading authorities and including the latest ground-breaking research, "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya" is a unique, lavishly...

Crime and Law in England, 1750 1840 - Remaking Justice from the Margins

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Croatia - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

An updated fourth edition of the comprehensive guide to the key dynamics and legacy events of the Croatian story, taking in the early Cro...

Cuban Missile Crisis - The Essential Reference Guide

Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the worl...

Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

Cypria - A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean -- A Gripping New History of Cyprus

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of Christian a...

Dämonenglaube und Hexenprozess - im Zeitalter von Renaissance, Humanismus, Reformation

Der Autor Rüdiger Gollnick unternimmt zunächst mit dem Leser bzw. der Leserin eine Zeitreise in eine historische Umbruchsituation vom Mit...

Dance If Ye Can - A Dictionary of Scottish Battles

Dance If Ye Can is an introduction to the huge variety of battles fought in Scotland, or fought by the Scots in the nearly nine hundred y...

Dannemora

The discovery of iron ore near Chateaugay Lake in 1831 started the settlement later known as the town of Dannemora. In 1832, several loca...