Encyclopedia world history paperback

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days This is an overview of the history of the world from prehistoric times up to the year 2000. It is illustrated with a wealth of images depicting key events and everyday life in times gone by. Features Summary An incredibly valuable overview of the history of the world from prehistoric times up to the year 2000.Magnificantly illustrated with a wealth of images depicting key events and everyday life in times gone by... Author Jane Bingham Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20130401 Pages 416 ISBN 1-4095-6251-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4095-6251-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY, BRIEF EDITION, is a mainstream world history text that masterfully uses the theme of movement--the journeys of peoples, ideas, and goods--to help the reader make sense of the overwhelming range of people, places, and events throughout history. Each chapter begins with, and is framed around, the story of a person who traveled within the time period and region of the chapter. Readers will enjoy the stories and will also learn to critically evaluate the traveler's observations and attitudes. VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY includes a primary source feature called "Movement of Ideas," which helps the reader to analyze original sources by providing multiple explanations of significant ideas throughout history. Features Summary Using the theme of movement - the journeys of peoples, ideas, and goods - this title helps the reader make sense of a range of people, places, and events in the history... Author Kenneth R. Curtis (Author), Valerie Hansen (Author) Publisher Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc Release date 20111216 Pages 496 ISBN 1-111-35235-6 ISBN 13 978-1-111-35235-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days This series is targeted at AQA Modern World History specification B. It provides all the information students will need for paper one and paper two, with exam-style questions to help them prepare for the exam proper. Differentiated resources in "Core" and "Foundation" editions mean the series can be used with all students, whatever their individual ability. This revision guide concentrates on improving the students' grades by summarizing key issues and highlighting practical issues concerning exam performance. Features Summary This series is targeted at AQA Modern World History specification B. It provides all the information students will need for paper one and paper two, with exam-style questions to help them prepare for the exam proper.. Author Ferriby McCabe Publisher Heinemann Release date 20020830 Pages 288 ISBN 0-435-31206-5 ISBN 13 978-0-435-31206-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on Russian soil during the most incredible military conflict in modern history. As a behind-the-scenes eyewitness to the pivotal, shattering events as they occurred, Werth chronicles with vivid detail the hardships of everyday citizens, massive military operations, and the political movements toward diplomacy as the world tried to reckon with what they had created. Despite its sheer historical scope, Werth tells the story of a country at war in startlingly human terms, drawing from his daily interviews and conversations with generals, soldiers, peasants, and other working class civilians. The result is a unique and expansive work with immeasurable breadth and depth, built on lucid and engaging prose, that captures every aspect of a terrible moment in human history. Now newly updated with a foreword by Soviet historian Nicolas Werth, the son of Alexander Werth, this new edition of Russia at War continues to be indispensable World War II journalism and the definitive historical authority on the Soviet-German war. Features Summary In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book... Author Nicolas Werth Publisher Sky Pony Press Release date 20170217 Pages 1136 ISBN 1-5107-1625-4 ISBN 13 978-1-5107-1625-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent racism? What do apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the American South under Jim Crow have in common? How did the Holocaust advance civil rights in the United States? With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present. Beginning with the medieval antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity, he traces the spread of racist thinking in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. And he examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism created a new intellectual context for debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation. Fredrickson then makes the first sustained comparison between the color-coded racism of nineteenth-century America and the antisemitic racism that appeared in Germany around the same time. He finds similarity enough to justify the common label but also major differences in the nature and functions of the stereotypes invoked. The book concludes with a provocative account of the rise and decline of the twentieth century's overtly racist regimes--the Jim Crow South, Nazi Germany, and apartheid South Africa--in the context of world historical developments. This illuminating work is the first to treat racism across such a sweep of history and geography. It is distinguished not only by its original comparison of modern racism's two most significant varieties--white supremacy and antisemitism--but also by its eminent readability. Features Summary The Description for this book, Racism: A Short History, will be forthcoming. Author George M. Fredrickson (Author), Albert Camarillo (Foreword by) Publisher Princeton University Press Release date 20151002 Pages 232 ISBN 0-691-16705-2 ISBN 13 978-0-691-16705-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD. For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Rome's cultural predominance was assured, artists and tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens and Bernini. Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a monument both to human glory and human error. In equal parts loving, iconoclastic, enraged and wise, peopled with colourful figures and rich in unexpected details, ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the world's most glorious cities. Features Summary Revised for the paperback edition - a dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD. Author Robert Hughes Publisher Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date 20120405 Pages 607 ISBN 0-7538-2305-5 ISBN 13 978-0-7538-2305-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular science writing tells the tragic story of the struggle between humanity and its humble but deadly enemies, the organisms of disease. Zinsser shows how infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. While from the human perspective an invading pathogen was abnormal, from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal.From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy's fashion for wearing wigs and the role of typhus in the First World War, Zinsser reveals just how disease and epidemics have shaped human history. Features Summary The classic account of infectious disease and human history Author Hans Zinsser Publisher Prelude Press Release date 20170810 Pages 320 ISBN 1-911440-89-6 ISBN 13 978-1-911440-89-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The 'I-Spy' books are the perfect way to keep children entertained whilst learning about the world around them. Features Summary The 'I-Spy' books are the perfect way to keep children entertained whilst learning about the world around them. Author I Spy Publisher Michelin Editions Des Voyages Release date 20100401 Pages 64 ISBN 2-06-715147-9 ISBN 13 978-2-06-715147-5

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Encyclopedia Of Knowledge Is A Giant Guide To Everything Children Aged 8+ Have Ever Wanted To Know! Split Into Eight Sections, It Provides Detailed Information On The Following Topics: The Universe, Planet Earth, Life On Earth, People, Countries, History, Science And Technology, Arts And Culture. Useful Features Include Visual Factfiles, Bulleted Facts, Charts, World Records, Bizarre Facts And Top Tens. The Book Is Fully Cross-Referenced Throughout And Is Packed With Diagrams, Illustrations And Photos.&Nbsp; This product ships within 3-5 working days

World Book Encyclopaedia Volumes A-Z, published . A set of 22 hard cover books with b&w and colour pictures. Slight wear on some books but in excellent condition. Some geography may be outdated but physics and history quite valuable and interesting. They make for a lovely lounge or study volume set. Selling them as requiring space. Comes with an Index book for reference as well. Generally such a set would be worth R180 per book total R. However I am willing to consider any reasonable offers for the whole set. (Please note I will only sell as a set and NOT individual volumes). It is recommended that you collect the set as postage will be very expensive. Please send me an email and I will reply with my number. All serious inquiries welcome. Thanks

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A fully illustrated, comprehensive guide to the Roman World - its history, government, army, religion and everyday life. The comprehensive factfinder includes a timeline, 'who's who?' and details of recent archaeological finds. QR codes on each page take readers straight to mobile websites that bring the pages to life with interactive content. Features Summary A fully illustrated, comprehensive guide to the Roman World - its history, government, army, religion and everyday life. The comprehensive factfinder includes a timeline... Author Fiona Chandler Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20150213 Pages 128 ISBN 1-4095-8295-7 ISBN 13 978-1-4095-8295-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious. Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are. For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other. 'The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society' Sunday Times Features Summary A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany... Author Neil MacGregor Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20190928 Pages 512 ISBN 0-14-198625-5 ISBN 13 978-0-14-198625-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and al-Qaeda in historical context. Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive history of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881: the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II by terrorists...or were they freedom fighters? Thus begins a narrative of extraordinary sweep that "Publishers Weekly" called "engrossing, unsettling" and the Boston Globe praised as "brave and wise" and "a book for the ages." In The Infernal Machine, Carr unearths the complex realities of terrorist violence and its indelible impact on nations as different as Italy, Argentina, France, Algeria, Ireland, Russia, Japan, and the United States. Spanning over a century of world history, "The Infernal Machine" reveals stunning similarities in societies' responses to terrorism despite profound political and cultural differences. Carr demonstrates again and again that the true impact of terrorism has been felt in the overreactions of government and the media to acts of political violence. This "encyclopedic and diagnostic...primer for our frightening times" ("Edmonton Journal") allows us to see our current predicament against a background of striking historical parallels. Features Summary With extraordinary narrative sweep, investigative journalist Carr unearths the complex realities of terrorist violence and the stunning similarities in societies' responses to terrorism despite profound political and cultural differences.. Author Matthew Carr Publisher New Press Release date 20080920 Pages 410 ISBN 1-59558-408-0 ISBN 13 978-1-59558-408-3

Paperback. English. ISBN: 0852550979. English. James Currey & UNESCO. 1990. In fair/good condition."Volume VII" of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, "The UNESCO General History of Africa" reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography.