Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North by Andrea di Robilant
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. This title tells the story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the w ...Show more
Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Matthew Brzezinski
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler's war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisin ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilizat ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Bryson Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journe ...Show more
Books: A Living History by Martyn Lyons
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
This lavishly illustrated volume explores one of the most versatile, useful and enduring technologies ever invented: the book. "Books: A Living History" charts the evolution and influence of books around the world, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer through the development of movable type and t ...Show more
The Civil Wa r: A History by Harry Hansen
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was - the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today. Revised reissue.
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dale Carpenter
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Were it not all so real and historically consequential, this book would read like a Grisham novel. But the painful reality is that American sodomy laws were hardly fiction; and were, in fact, used to prosecute gays and lesbians for centuries until they were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of those involved in conquering, settling and ruling th ...Show more
Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan h ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Them: Adventures with Extremists is a romp into the heart of darkness involving twelve-foot lizard-men, PR-conscious Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, the legend of Ruby Ridge, Noam Chomsky, a harem of kidnapped sex slaves, David Icke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes. While Jon Ronson a ...Show more