British Gardens in Time: The Greatest Gardens and the People Who Shaped Them
Nathan Harrison, Chris Beardshaw and Katie Campbell
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As Seen on the BBC. British Gardens in Time takes four iconic gardens, each a product of its age,...
Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy
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From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have...
Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest
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For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with...
The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy
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In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic prophecies of the late medieval...
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
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The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD,...
The Puritans on Independence: The First Examination, Defence, and Second Examination
Polly Ha, Jonathan D. Moore and Edda Frankot
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The Puritans on Independence sheds light on the rise of new claims by puritans to freedom as...
The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity: Transforming Public Space
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In The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity, Gregor Kalas examines architectural...
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins...
The Story of the Thames
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500,000 Years in the Life of a River. The longest river in England, the Thames, has witnessed the...
The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
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Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain--home to 200 million people--the Yellow River...