3,549円 The beer of todayーbrewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkennessーis largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has ...

1,723円 Deborah Manley’s selection of extracts reveals how generations of writers have viewed the landscapes of Malta and Gozo, the people of the islands, the splendours of Valletta and its famous harbour, and the celebrated festas, the village festivals that celebrate the island’s Catholic identity. An ...

1,591円 Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaffs transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europes prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaffs fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history captur...

2,851円 Lord Byron’s Grand Tour is recorded as impressions in his own letters and journals, more methodically in the diary of his travelling companion John Cam Hobhouse, and reflected poetically in the first two cantos of the epic poem that was to make his fame and start his legend.Lord Strathcarron’s re...

0円 'Eén koers, één strijd, de vrijheid' is ontleend aan één van de teksten die op het Monument der Gevallenen op Plein 1945 in IJmuiden staan. Na de bevrijding in 1945 is een aantal gesneuvelde Velsense verzetslieden en of oorlogsslachtoffers in Velsen blijvend geëerd door straatnamen naar ze te noe...

9,450円 A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At th...

2,847円 **In Armageddon, one of Britain's most highly regarded historians tells the epic story of the bloody last eight months of the war in Europe. 'Hastings triumphs . . . he conveys brilliantly what fighting was like for those who had to do it'** – David Stafford, The Times 'Masterly' – Craig Brown, M...

440円 This book was originally composed as a lecture to some Jewish working-men at the East end of London. The subject was, to the author, naturally an interesting one no less from a national than from a family point of view. The position of the Jews in Spain and Portugal during a great part of the mid...

164円 The prequel to the American Revolution. This struggle for political and religious freedom inspired America's Founding Fathers. Schiller tells the tale with a novelist's insight into character. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosop...

1,399円 A grand history of the rise of Western Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History “An entertaining account of the fraught last years of the Dark Ages.”ーThe Wall Street Journal “An enjoyable and exuber...

777円 It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguilingーand marriedーaristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old...

1,088円 In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic w...