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Riviera Dreaming
Love and War on the Côte d'Azur
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Riviera Dreaming – Love and War on the Côte d'Azur tells the story of expatriate life on the French Riviera in the first part of the last century – from two decades of privileged indulgence to the tragedy of the Second World War. This the true story of Barry Dierks, a young American architect...
Crimea and the Black Sea
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Crimea has a rich and varied history. Mentioned in the writings of Strabo, Herodotus and Pliny the Elder, it was colonized by the Huns, the Goths and the Mongols and was part of the Roman, Byzantine and Venetian empires, until it annexed by Russia in the eighteenth century. It suffered in the Crimean...
Pompeii Awakened
A Story of Rediscovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The rediscovery of the Roman cities overwhelmed by the rage of Vesuvius is one of history's most extraordinary adventure stories. Pompeii Awakened revels in that adventure, and tells of the re-emergence of a long-vanished cosmopolis which profoundly inspired a later age - from its arts and architecture to its science, sex and religion.
Aftermath
The Makers of the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In a single decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European
empires – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – receded, replaced by two new superpowers: the Soviet Union
and the United States. This shift in power was accompanied by efforts...
Private Pictures
Soldiers' Inside View of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured, shocked the worldin 2004. But, as Private Pictures reveals, far from this beinga phenomenon of the digital and Internet age, soldiers havebeen taking photographs of war for more than 100 years.
Janina...
by Jorge Eslava, VUJICIC NICK VUJICIC
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 25, 2018
"Mamá había sacado una lección de nuestra tragedia. Nos estaba transmitiendo una enseñanza: que amar la vida significa abrazarla con pasión."
Una mañana cualquiera la narradora de esta historia se despide de Gabriel, su hermano menor, y le desea suerte en su examen final de...
The Horse in the Ancient World
From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of...
Ireland and the End of the British Empire
The Republic and its Role in the Cyprus Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In 1949, Ireland left the Commonwealth and the British Empire began its long fragmentation. The relationship between the new Republic of Ireland and Britain was a complex one however, and the traditional assumption that the Republic would universally support self-determination overseas and object...
The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dwr
England, France and the Welsh Rebellion in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Owain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history. He was the warrior who led the Welsh Revolt and the last war of Welsh independence (1400-1415). He defeated Henry IV's army, was a worthy opponent of the king's champion, the legendary Henry Percy - 'Hotspur' – and last native Welshman to bear...
Aspects of Empire
A New Corona Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The British Empire was the most powerful empire known to the modern world, but power and confidence were ebbing by the mid-20th century. Aspects of Empire, a second anthology of writings from the Corona Club journal, shows the British Parliament, Government, the Colonial Office and leading actors...
Sex
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about sexuality. Despite this, the scientific study of sexual behaviour is a relatively recent phenomenon. Doctors, legal experts and other intellectuals have all pondered challenging questions...
Geoarchaeology
The Human-Environmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectives on environmental...
Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah
The Transformation of Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely responsible for the creation of the Kuwaiti defence...
Mubarak Al-Sabah
The Foundation of Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Amidst political upheaval and the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the State of Kuwait emerged as an independent country under British protection in 1899, with Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah widely accredited as the instrument of its foundation. But the path to power for Mubarak was not a simple or smooth...