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Branko Milanovic

The World Under Capitalism

Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world's leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in …

Michael Jackson

History: Past, Present And Future - Book I (2 Blu-spec CD2)

Philip Gooding

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

"Across the world, historians have taken an oceanic turn. New maritime histories offer fresh approaches to the study of global regions, and to long-distance and long-term connections. Cambridge Ocean…

Samuel Mosheim Smucker

History of All Religions. Containing a Statement of the Origin, Development, Doctrines, Form of Workship and Government of All the Religious Denominations in the World

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881. 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…

James Geary

The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

Samuel Mosheim Smucker

History of All Religions. Containing a Statement of the Origin, Development, Doctrines, Form of Workship and Government of All the Religious Denominations in the World

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881. 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…

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 …

Samuel Mosheim Smucker

History of All Religions. Containing a Statement of the Origin, Development, Doctrines, Forms of Worship and Government of All the Religious Denominations in the World

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882. 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…

Owen Rees

The Far Edges of the Known World

'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator 'This is the book for e…

Jonathan Weeks

Shocktober

Baseball's October showcase has provided some high drama over the years. Willie Mays's spectacular catch in 1954, Bill Mazeroski's walk-off homer in 1960, and Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit blast in 1988 are jus…

Owen Rees

The Far Edges of the Known World

What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece…

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 t…

Clemente A Lisi

The World Cup

The ultimate history of the World CupEvery four years, the world's best national soccer teams compete for the World Cup. Billions of people tune in from around the world to experience the remarkable games…

Tamim Ansary,

Die unbekannte Mitte der Welt

Die vergessene Geschichte der Welt Jahrhundertelang war die islamische Welt das Zentrum der Zivilisation. Heute aber wird der Islam viel zu oft auf Islamismus und Terrorismus reduziert, scheinen wir daue…

Carthusian Monasticism

This volume seeks-through the work of a number of experts in various fields-to explore monastic life as embodied by Carthusian monks and nuns. Medieval and Early Modern Carthusians are omnipresent in a nu…

Martin Kristoffer Hamre

Fascists of the World, Unite?

This book analyzes the ideas and forms of international cooperation between Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. The study ex…

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…

The I.B. Tauris Handbook to Gendering the Histories of the Arab World

Provides a new cultural history of the Arab world by using gender as a theoretical lens