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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....

When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia....

Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history a vital lens through which to think....

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks...

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated....

This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....

This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau....

The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....

In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade....

Even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious....

In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....

The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection....

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers....

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past....

Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

January 1991. IRAQ. Eight members of the SAS regiment embark upon a top secret mission to infiltrate deep behind enemy lines....

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....

Did Hitler - code name "Grey Wolf" - really die in 1945? Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened....

In Ask a Historian, the author, BBC podcaster and public historian Greg Jenner provides answers to things you always wondered about but didn't know who to ask....

The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.

Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism—not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement, but as a dense matrix of interconnections.

In this visionary Shortest History of Migration, Ian Goldin uncovers key moments of cultural exchange while carefully examining empire, slavery, and war. Throughout, we meet famous explorers (Zheng He), exiles (Pablo Neruda), and everyday people in extraordinary circumstances: a Jewish man saved by the Kindertransport, a Japanese gardener who blossomed in Mexico City.

This audiobook will take you on a journey through time, showing how piracy began, grew, and even still exists today. From ancient sailors to modern pirates, you’ll uncover fascinating stories that bring this dangerous world to life.

「混迷の現代」を読み解くカギは「歴史」の中にある。古代ローマ史研究の第一人者によるはじめての世界史講義。教養としての「世界史』の読み方とは、「歴史に学ぶ」ということ、「過去と現在との関わり合いを知る」ということ。

"The only thing new in the world," said Harry S. Truman, "is the history you don't know." In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time. These tales are far from trivia; they illuminate little-known American and foreign achievements, ingenuity, heroics, blunders, and tragedies that changed the course of history and resonate today.

Go beyond the popular stories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Inca, and the Maya, and uncover the rich diversity of people that are often overlooked. From the world's first peace treaty to daring expeditions across the Pacific, learn about twenty ancient and historic cultures from around the world that have had monumental impacts on our modern world.

Ad Absurdum recorre en esta desternillante pero rigurosa obra milenios de historia, del origen de la humanidad hasta la irrupción de la modernidad, para responder a preguntas fundamentales que todo el mundo se ha hecho alguna vez: ¿De dónde venimos? ¿Qué le debemos a los mongoles? ¿Puede un camellero huérfano cambiar la geopolítica mundial? En este libro encontrarás muchos aspectos del pasado de la humanidad.

The decade from 2015 to 2025 was a period of significant political, social, and economic change. Political landscapes saw the rise of populism, growing polarization, and the emergence of new movements advocating for democracy and social justice. The COVID-19 pandemic defined much of this era, exposing weaknesses in healthcare systems while accelerating technological advancements in medicine, remote work, and digital economies.

Step into "Fun Facts Encyclopedia: WTF Fun Facts You Won't Believe are Actually True!" and prepare for a whirlwind tour of the curious and the astounding. This is no ordinary facts book—it's a vibrant collection that dances across topics, from the architectural masterpieces of ancient empires to the secret lives of deep-sea creatures, each fact chosen not just to surprise but also to spark wonder and ignite conversations.

The Spoils of Time is a concise history of the world in nine chapters, tracing the prehistoric beginnings of early man’s halting steps towards civilization and ending sometime around 1500. The scope is vast, with Wedgwood’s scholarship spanning all the continents. As the author states, her purpose was to create a continuous narrative of human history for her own pleasure and to find out for herself what, if any, interlacing relations might hold us together.

Unveil the hidden forces that have shaped history. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries is a groundbreaking two-volume work that explores the clandestine organizations that have operated behind the scenes for centuries. Charles William Heckethorn presents an exhaustive account of secret brotherhoods, political conspiracies, and occult traditions that have influenced governments, revolutions, and ideologies across the globe.

Die Geschichte der Menschen ist seit ihrer Sesshaftwerdung ein Mosaik aus Völkern, Reichen, Religionen und Kulturen, die entstehen und vergehen. Trotzdem lassen sich, wie Volker Reinhardt in seiner meisterhaften Darstellung zeigt, große Linien und Wendepunkte erkennen. Er erklärt, wie vor rund 5000 Jahren die ersten Reiche entstanden, welche ihrer Errungenschaften Bestand hatten und wo sich Wege friedlich oder kriegerisch kreuzten.

The book reveals the creative and innovative discoveries made as a result of in depth research, and years of Graduate studies, beginning at the Villa Schifanoia, and Villa I Tatti on Renaissance Art in Florence, Italy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with Maria Theresa Duncan and La Bibliothèque Château de Versailles. The Renaissance Culture known as Humanistic, Humanitus, as depicted in the Sculpting and Paintings of Michelangelo, Sandro Boticelli, Raphael, Da Vinci and others. Man was in balance with the Greater Universe, Art and Architecture.

A fusion of Sapiens and The Power of Now, Good News About the World Falling Apart reveals that the current crises we face on Earth are the birth pangs of a species. Humans have been here before. We were at an inflection point of this magnitude when we first developed fire and language 200 thousand years ago and, again, ten thousand years ago when we discovered how to germinate seeds. Although these Turnings could have led to our extinction, each time we used our superpowers—imagination and intuition—to transform our consciousness and persevere.

American and World History 1985 to 2005 offers a comprehensive exploration of a transformative twenty-year period that reshaped global dynamics, national politics, economies, cultures, and technologies. The audiobook opens with the end of the Cold War, marking a historic shift as ideological conflicts receded and a new era of global cooperation and competition emerged. Subsequent chapters delve into American politics and leadership, detailing how key figures navigated post-Cold War challenges and guided the nation through profound economic transformations and evolving international roles.

Nassau è stata la capitale dei pirati dei Caraibi. Un nido di disertori che cercavano la libertà, in nome di una vita breve ma felice. Una confraternita di criminali, un commonwealth di pendagli da forca. È lì che, nel 1718, giunge Woodes Rogers. Ex corsaro ed esploratore, piagato nel corpo e nell’anima. Rogers ha un solo obiettivo: estirpare la pirateria. E intende farlo, costi quel che costi. Intrighi e ammutinamenti, torture, mosse politiche e navi date alle fiamme: segui l'ascesa e la caduta di figure iconiche come Barbanera, Charles Vane e Anne Bonny.

The first in a series entitled Lost Rites, this little gem of a book is a guide to the why and the how of ceremony within the context of death and dying. In this book we are led through the conventional form of a modern funeral from a celebrant’s perspective before that limited formulaic approach is then unpacked. The re-wilding of ceremony is about a return to circles within communities with the ceremonialist facilitating rather than reading a script from a pulpit.

Dalla maledizione di Tutankhamon al Triangolo delle Bermuda, dal Sangue di San Gennaro all’affondamento del Titanic: un viaggio affascinante alla scoperta dei più celebri misteri dell'umanità.Massimo Polidoro, sfoderando un approccio che fonde mentalità empirica e genuina curiosità verso i fenomeni più strani, ci accompagna lungo un itinerario che cerca di fare luce sui più grandi misteri della Storia. Massimo Polidoro (1969) è uno scrittore e divulgatore scientifico, storico collaboratore di Piero Angela, attualmente segretario nazionale del CICAP.

Unheimliche historische Begebenheiten, für die wir bis heute keine Erklärung haben Die Geschichte der Menschheit kennt zahlreiche rätselhafte Orte, ungeklärte Mordfälle oder sonderbare Personen. Bis heute suchen Fachleute und Historiker:innen für viele dieser Mysterien zufriedenstellende Erklärungen. Melina Hoischen alias @Miss History_ ist Geschichtsspezialistin auf Social Media. In ihrem Hörbuch untersucht sie die spannendsten und bedeutendsten Rätsel der Weltgeschichte und ist dem scheinbar Unerklärlichen auf der Spur.