Genre: History Books

Found 214 books in total
The Watchmaker's Daughter
The Watchmaker's Daughter
2023,
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal New York Times...
Code Name Blue Wren
Code Name Blue Wren
2023,
*An Amazon Best Book of 2023* *Apple Book of the Month for January* The incredible true...
No Is Not Enough
No Is Not Enough
2017,
"Trump is extreme but he's not a Martian. He is the logical conclusion of many of the...
Magnificent Rebels
Magnificent Rebels
2022,
A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature...
The Brother Gardeners
The Brother Gardeners
2008,
'The English are all, more or less, gardeners.’ From the Preface to the German...
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
2002,
A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote...
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
2004,
Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what...
Four Nights with the Duke
Four Nights with the Duke
2015,
As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar...
Baking Yesteryear
Baking Yesteryear
2023,
The #1 New York Times Bestseller A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best...
Walking with the Comrades
Walking with the Comrades
2011,
‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my...
The West
The West
2023,
“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a...
Black and Female
Black and Female
2022,
' A woman's defiant fight to write. ' Observer Being categorised as black and female...
Kitty Genovese
Kitty Genovese
2015,
"Vividly transforms Ms. Genovese from an iconic urban martyr to a three-dimensional...
Titanic Thompson
Titanic Thompson
2011,
This "raucous retelling of the life of a consummate gambler, grifter and quintessential...
The Great Arab Conquests
The Great Arab Conquests
2007,
Examines the history of the great Islamic expansion, reveals how the Arab armies were...
Listening to Grasshoppers
Listening to Grasshoppers
2009,
'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and...
A Pelican Introduction: The Caliphate
A Pelican Introduction: The Caliphate
2016,
What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used and abused...
South Vs North
South Vs North
2022,
Compare two children one born in north India, the other in the south.The child from...
The Age of Kali
The Age of Kali
2000,
In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of...
Azadi
Azadi
2020,
"The chant of "Azadi!"-Urdu for "Freedom!"-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in...
The Female Gaze
The Female Gaze
2018,
Pioneering Women, Inspiring Stories The term "male gaze" was first coined in the 1970s...
The Doctor and the Saint
The Doctor and the Saint
2017,
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we...
For the Glory
For the Glory
2016,
The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire , from his...
Tommy's Honor
Tommy's Honor
2007,
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of twoproud Scotsmen who beat all...
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