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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 …
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with …
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 …
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care …
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted …
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. …
Why We ACT: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels
A Washington Post Book of the Year "Makes a powerful argument for building, as early as possible, the ability to stand up for what's right in the face of peer pressure, corrupt …
Byron's Letters and Journals
George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the …
The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome
"Will undoubtedly shape our understanding of the global ecosystem for decades to come."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies A celebrated genome scientist …
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 …
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German …
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 …