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Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer

Figuring Out The Past

The numbers that tell the story of humanity 'Vital ... If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book ... If only the last Song emperor had had this b…

Tianxin Cai

A Brief History of Mathematics

This volume, originally published in China and translated into four other languages, presents a fascinating and unique account of the history of mathematics, divided into eight chronologically organized c…

Marcel van Herpen

History and Human Responsibility

"The present crisis is felt more acutely than previous crisis situations," observes Dutch security expert Marcel van Herpen, largely because human beings are now projecting responsibility into history on …

Charles Melhorn

A synopsis of history, ancient and modern. Giving a general view of the political world, from the rise of ancient monarchies, down to the present age

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Charles Melhorn

A synopsis of history, ancient and modern. Giving a general view of the political world, from the rise of ancient monarchies, down to the present age

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Owen Rees

The Far Edges of the Known World

When we picture the ancient world, we tend to envision the soaring pyramids of Giza, the Coliseum conquests in Rome and the bustling agora of Athens. Indeed, the classical authors who shape our understand…

Robert Peckham

Panic

'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei 'Brilliant' Simon Schama Fear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change. Here, Ro…

Jonathan Weeks

Shocktober

Baseball's October showcase has provided some high drama over the years and twenty-two of these stories are told in Shoctober. The book also includes an appendix of game statistics as well as a section on…

John Charles Chasteen

After Eden

In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's in…

Stuart Banner

The Most Powerful Court in the World

Stuart Banner's The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present. Not merely a history of the Court's opinions and j…

Alexandra Churchill, Nicolai Eberholst

Ring of Fire

The dramatic story of 1914—the start of World War I—presenting an expansive, dynamic history of the start of this truly global conflict. Most countries did not know what they were getting into during the…

Vincent Price

Witchcraft-Magic: An Adventure In Demonology (Reissue)

Charles Darwin

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Charles Darwin

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe's Industrial History

This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market. It traces the history …

Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. …

Rick Nelson

The Jasmine EP Collection

Nick Lloyd

The Eastern Front

'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times'A ma…

Rethinking U.S. World Power

Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S.…