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History, military and Historical Biography of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
| MACKAY, CHARLES Book Number: 22062 |
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This classic catalogue of some of the most Goutre enthusiasm, speculative, religious, or just plain daft, is a salutary reminder of the follies of mankind which are not unique to the modern world. ...
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| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Book Number: 27141 |
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Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing the law as his own. Henc...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 35497 |
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The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. They are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation: they are serious, urgen...
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| ANTHONY PAGDEN Book Number: 66051 |
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Pagden describes the European overseas migrations such as the growth of the British Empire, and the consequences of the initial encounters between 'civilised' Europeans and 'barbarian' Aborigines. ...
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| MIR BAHMANYAR Book Number: 66430 |
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Throughout the history of human conflict there have been battles of annihilation, engagements in which one side utterly destroys its opponent. Many have achieved immortal status, such as Hannibal's...
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| STEPHEN ALLEN Book Number: 66686 |
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Covering the period from the first mention of the Celts by Ancient Greek writers to the Roman conquest of Britain, the author looks at the Celtic warrior, his society and place within it, and the c...
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| NARISA CHAKRABONGSE Book Number: 66885 |
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In 1996, 17 hand-drawn and hand-coloured cotton map rolls were discovered within the Grand Palace, Siam. These long-lost treasures recorded cartographically Siamese warfare and trade during the fi...
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| CHARLES ALLEN Book Number: 67075 |
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This true account of the scandal that enveloped the discovery in 1898 of an inscribed casket said to have contained the ashes of the Buddha is set against the background of the high noon of the Bri...
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| MELVYN BRAGG Book Number: 67493 |
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An enthralling history of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people and how their day to day lives shaped and continued to change the extraordinary language that is English. From its...
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| ROBERT EASTON Book Number: 67657 |
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Royalty has a certain mystique, so we should not be surprised to find that they often meet their maker in ways more exotic, unlikely, unlucky, horrifying or just plain silly than the rest of us. Th...
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