0円 There has probably never been a greater political watchman than Winston Churchill. His foresight saved the Western world from demise in World War II. Yet today, the West scorns his message. The biggest tragedy of World War II is that we didn’t learn from that shameful and near-fatal disaster. In...

2,750円 Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figure...

330円 This is the text of the Heras Memorial Lectures delivered in Mumbai in December 1977. They contain: 1. Formative Ideology2. Democracy and Socialism3. Internationalism

0円 Ngāti Porou leader and politician Āpirana Ngata is one of New Zealand's best-known figures. Working through traditional tribal structures and as MP for Eastern Māori, he pressed for state-funded Māori land development. His wider aim was to strengthen Māori communities and revive Māori culture.

2,122円 The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century. The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Christine Keeler, while at the same time she had been sleeping with a Russian spy. The ensuing investigation revealed a secret world where titled men and ...

3,868円 O.D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 is a lively and compelling trip through the letters, diary entries, and official memoranda of O.D. Skelton, one of the most important and influential civil servants in twentieth-century Canada. Skelton was a towering foreign policy advisor to Canada'...

199円 Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau,a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, sa...

499円 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a complex, fascinating figure. And yet after months in the headlines, after all the jokes about his crack cocaine use, about his alleged ties with street gangs, about his unbelievable comments to the press, and about his continued support in the polls. But who is this ma...

600円 Journey with the author from his youth in a small village in Iran, to two larger cities there, and then to America, blindness, and happiness. Now an American citizen and a proud resident of Boston, Mortazavi has much to say about Iran vs. America, volunteerism, American culture and humor, and wha...

200円 The presidency of John F. Kennedy, the broad-daylight murder of John F. Kennedy, and the public outrage over a sham investigation into that murder are the watershed events of the Twentieth Century. On November 22, 1963, and in the months that followed, everything changed. America lost a president...

1,550円 John F. Kennedy is killed in Texas; controversies spring up over his remains, his successor's swearing-in, a dubious autopsy, the arrest of one suspect; large groups attempt to interrogate the suspect; equally large groups attempt to transfer him, but he becomes the first person murderedーand sil...

399円 Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, (1769-1821), est le premier empereur des Français, en 1804, puis en 1815, il règne pendant 10 ans. Bonaparte est une figure historique controversée, il a su bâtir sa propre légende. Il reçoit dès son plus jeune âge une éducation militaire. Homme politique très habile, Bo...