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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and …
The Idea of Justice
Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in …
Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to …
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. …
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before …
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year "Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."--Tom Holland, The Telegraph "Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's …
Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps …
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Telegraph Book of the Year A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from the mental hospital to the brain lab--that reveals the …
New Rome: The Empire in the East
A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We …
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from …
Lit Guide to the Bible P
Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two …