Presents the author's personal journey through Pakistan, a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves - Generals Musharraf and Zia, and the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto - the legacies haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the US-sponsored jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan.

The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise.

(Hardback)

How many of us today can accurately identify the stars and constellations, the phases of the moon, or the hour and position of the sunrise Few modern city-dwellers can, but for our forebears such knowledge was crucial. This book explores the history of mankind's intimate relationship with the sky.

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A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.

(Paperback)

A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.

Stories from around the world of a history of food preservation. Resplendent with historical figures from Francis Bacon who died trying to freeze a chicken, to Attila the Hun who 'gallop-cured' his meat by storing it under his saddle as he rode, this is a social history of food and civilization.

(Paperback, Reprint)

Early historic Scotland was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when A new and revised edition of a highly regarded book.

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This is an introduction to the Picts, for the general reader and historian alike, by leading experts. Based on evidence from recent excavations of major Pictish sites, as well as the latest historical research, this book offers a new viewpoint on a critical but little-known era of Scotlands history.

(Paperback, Reissue)

The extraordinary life of Grace OMalley, the worlds most famous woman pirate.

(Paperback, Airside/Export ed)

A gripping and important biography of one of the 20th century's most reviled political monsters, who ravaged Cambodia.

(, Main)

Politics in the Age of Peel, first published in 1953, is concerned with the ordinary working world of politicians in England during the stormy period between 1830 and 1850: the age of the railway, the Chartists, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish famine.

(Paperback)

What has driven human beings throughout history

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(Hardback)

The 1950s and 60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, but what was life really like Featuring more than 500 objects and photographs from collections around New Zealand, Real Modern tells a vibrant and varied story of life in these familiar yet surprising times.

(Paperback)

From the bestselling author. Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world
From the French Revolution to today. How far we have come! How far we - and men too- have yet to go. Exhilarating and inspiring for readers of all ages.

(Paperback, Export - Airside ed)

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution andhow it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers fortyyears of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.

(Paperback)

An acclaimed history of the biggest, brashest and most tumultuous decade in recent British history.

(Hardback)

Highlights notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. This book includes wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery rebels and stolid reactionaries, as well as a pornographer, an acrobat, an actress, a poetic prostitute, a star comedian and a least one very fretful mother.

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.

(Hardback, Second edition)

(Hardback)

A narrative history of the 100 years of the Republic.

(Paperback)

Tells the stories of the Russians, exploring the vast expanses of the empire and the lives of the rural peasants, describing the ways in which Russia took on, or rejected, Western influences, and recounting how the empire was built and maintained.