Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportun ...
In Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984) Noble recounts the history of machine tool automation in the United States. ...
In Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984) Noble recounts the history of machine tool automation in the United States. ...
This undertaking represents the first dedicated attempt at a complete coverage, both geographically and chronologically, of all linguistic traditions, ...
The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world. Yet t ...
The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document a ...
This book provides a broad history of the Seljuq Turks from their origins and early conquests in the 10th century, through the rise of empire, until i ...
The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This b ...
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a m ...
This comparative historical study of econometrics focuses on the development of econometric methods and their application to macroeconomics. The analy ...
For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single ...
A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from conquerors, ...
This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. It r ...
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources ...
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources ...
Many advances in medicine and surgery can be directly linked to improvements in understanding the structure and function of the human body. During the ...
