
A History Of Pictures For Children
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today o...
View full detailsA History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today o...
View full detailsFor nearly thirty years, during which it has been continuously in print, Jeffrey Russell's A History of Witchcraft has been the one authoritative c...
View full detailsBurma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country ev...
View full detailsFor centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and...
View full detailsSince earliest times food has encompassed so much more than just what we eat – whole societies can be revealed and analysed by their cuisine. In th...
View full detailsThroughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those ...
View full detailsHow do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? ...
View full detailsThroughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha. To Alexander ...
View full detailsReligious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-large...
View full detailsLike every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 14...
View full detailsRevolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articula...
View full detailsBringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean’s classic work includes additional chapters by distinguish...
View full detailsAsian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of E...
View full detailsMarco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book...
View full detailsFrom Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host o...
View full detailsFor too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in r...
View full detailsFrom the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Jud...
View full detailsChocolate--'the food of the Gods'--has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe, ...
View full detailsAspirations for a better - even a perfect - society have existed throughout history, often imagined in intricate detail by philosophers, poets, soc...
View full detailsToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then livi...
View full detailsThe apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian...
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