World History category: 14642 books
by New World Publishers, LLC
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This essential reference provides a summary of the major news events for each day in 2012. It contains world news in the following categories:
Armed conflict and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
...
Beyond Hawai'i
Native Labor in the Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in *na ‘aina ‘e *(foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean,...
Small states in world politics
The story of small state survival, 1648-2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power politics? And what explains the dramatic rise and fall in the number of states overtime, following no consistent trend and not showing an immediately obvious direction or pattern?...
The Heritage
A Daughter’s Memories of Louis Bromfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
First published in 1962, in this lively, outspoken and affectionate memoir are all the things Louis Bromfield loved and hated, fought for or against, in a life marked by surging vitality and gusto. He came of an Ohio family whose roots once were in the land, before the land was lost. He knew early...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.
Jacob Abbott was a prolific American author best known for...
Billy's Back!
Selections from The Memoirs of Billy Shears
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Billy’s Back! shows how William Shepherd ("Billy Shears") replaced Paul McCartney in The Beatles, revealing exactly how he went from being "Billy Pepper" of Billy Pepper and the Pepper Pots, to The Beatles' new "Sgt. Pepper" of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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101 Things You Didn't Know about Da Vinci
Inventions, Intrigue, and Unfinished Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Timed to coincide with the release of Walter Isaacson’s latest biography on the famous painter and inventor, as well as the latest thriller in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series, this book includes 101 in-depth facts about Leonardo Da Vinci.
101 Things You Didn’t Know About Da Vinci provides...
by Conor O'Clery
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Conor O’Clery has been a witness to some of the major world events of the last thirty years, including the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the ending of the Cold War as viewed from Moscow; the reluctant opening up of China to the West; the Clinton years in the White House; and the 9/11 attacks. As...
by Steinsaltz, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
When Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad-Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from near annihilation in the Holocaust. During his forty years of leadership, Rabbi Schneerson transformed Chabad into a global movement marked by extensive outreach...
by Joseph McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The history of Russia has attracted many writers and inspired many volumes during the last twenty years, yet its most romantic and most interesting feature has not been fully appreciated.
Thirteen years ago, when the long struggle of the Russian democrats culminated in a bloody revolution,...
Dynasty
The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
Dynasty...
Democracy
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In our time, the term "democracy" is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population. In this book, Temma Kaplan examines attempts from ancient Mesopotamia to the early...
Conquering the Electron
The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long...
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge
“Dazzling.” – Steven Pinker, The Guardian
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and...