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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....

When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....

In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears....

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated....

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....

The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks...

In the Second World War every bond between man and man was to perish.....

When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

Best-selling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in Australia in a fresh and compelling way....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world....

A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects (Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969) by Richard M. Dolan is the first installment in a groundbreaking three-volume series that explores the fascinating and often unexplained phenomenon of USOs—Unidentified Submerged Objects.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....

A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....

Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history a vital lens through which to think....

In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade....

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past....

For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth....

January 1991. IRAQ. Eight members of the SAS regiment embark upon a top secret mission to infiltrate deep behind enemy lines....

Monstros é uma investigação a respeito da perversidade na História, uma crônica fascinante da depravação humana, uma lição que abrange três milênios sobre o bem e o mal, na qual o historiador best-seller Simon Sebag Montefiore apresenta sua seleção dos homens e mulheres mais perversos que já existiram: Tiranos e Imperatrizes, Conquistadores e Canibais, Prostitutas e Megalomaníacos, Torturadores e Assassinos em Série, Sedutoras e Traidores De Átila, o Huno, a Adolf Hitler; de Lucrécia Bórgia a Ivã, o Terrível; de Josef Stalin a Saddam Hussein...

In this insightful book, the author examines the exploitation that Korea endured during the period of Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945. The book sheds light on economic, resource, and labor exploitation, highlighting the lasting impact of Japan's control on Korea. It also explores the resistance movements that emerged in response to this exploitation and the subsequent efforts to rebuild Korea after liberation.

The understandable, deeply authoritative and bestselling book on the Orthodox Church, in a fully updated and revised Third Edition.

One of Rome's most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot―thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero's most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own interests. Like so many women libeled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was much more interesting, complex, and nuanced than the corrupted version passed down through generations.

La guerra del 1914-1918 fu il primo conflitto che coinvolse tutti i paesi d'Europa. Due possenti coalizioni, l'Intesa (Gran Bretagna, Francia e Russia) e gli imperi centrali (Germania e Austria-Ungheria), si misurarono in uno scontro tanto violento quanto logorante. In termini di costi economici e umani - nove milioni di morti - i quattro anni di combattimenti ebbero sulle potenze belligeranti un effetto disastroso.

In 1985 Mark Litchfield, ex-Naval Officer, millionaire, member of Lloyd’s, asked Nicholas Ridley, Transport Minister, to allow his ship, the Marques, to enter the Tall Ship’s Race without an inspection. Fatally, Ridley agreed. His decision was the start of a series of events that ended in the tragic sinking of the Marques and the death of 19 people. Unbeknownst to Shirley, her 18-year-old son, Ben, was one of them. Following the tragic death of her son, Shirley went through further torment throughout the investigation, cover up and court case.

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held assumptions, including how bilateral rather than triangular voyages were the norm, and how the Portuguese rather than the British were the leading slave traders.

Picture this: the creak of a ship’s timbers, the snap of sails in the wind, and the clash of cutlasses under a blood-red sky. Pirates—the word alone sparks tales of ruthless rogues, hidden treasure, and high-seas mayhem. But who were the real men and women behind the myths? Forget the Hollywood clichés. Pirates and the Golden Age of Piracy uncovers the truth about history’s most infamous outlaws!

Curlew Coast is the author’s second book about East Anglia’s maritime past. Using the coastal towns of Suffolk as a framework, the book explores a diversity of subjects from rope making to ship burials and from coastal erosion to the early navigators. Curlew Coast covers the period from when the Anglo-Saxons first sailed up the East Anglian rivers, to the age of the railway when the engine began to take over from sail.

What do Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine all have in common? They were all targeted by the same machine. 'Regime Machine' is a brutal, forensic, and unflinching field guide to how the CIA and its partners overthrew governments, assassinated leaders, and destabilized entire nations—often in the name of democracy. From Cold War coups to modern proxy wars, this book traces the blueprint of covert empire and pulls back the curtain on the United States' global playbook for control. If you think you know history, read this.