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The Romanovs

1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

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The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.

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0307266524

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9780307266521

The World

A Family History of Humanity

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

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The World

A Family History of Humanity

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs “Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.” —The Economist, Best Books of the Year Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us. In this epic, ever-surprising book, Montefiore chronicles the world’s great dynasties across human history through palace intrigues, love affairs, and family lives, linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama. It features a cast of extraordinary diversity: in addition to rulers and conquerors, there are priests, charlatans, artists, scientists, tycoons, gangsters, lovers, husbands, wives, and children. There is Hongwu, the beggar who founded the Ming dynasty; Ewuare, the Leopard-King of Benin; Henry Christophe, King of Haiti; Kamehameha, the conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, the Arab empress who defied Rome; Lady Murasaki, the first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, the Moroccan pirate-queen. Here too are moderns such as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Here are the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads. These powerful families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody succession battles, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence. A dazzling achievement as spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.

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0525659544

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9780525659549

The Greek World 479-323 BC

By: Simon Hornblower

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The Greek World 479-323 BC

By: Simon Hornblower

The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular, this fourth edition takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta, and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before.

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Routledge

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1136831258

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The Greek World 479-323BC

By: Simon Hornblower

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The Greek World 479-323BC

By: Simon Hornblower

The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC.

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370

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Routledge

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1134963866

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9781134963867

Alamein

Great Battles

By: Simon Ball

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Alamein

Great Battles

By: Simon Ball

El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial battle. Based on an intensive reading of the contemporary sources, in particular the extensive and recently declassified British bugging of Axis prisoners of war, military historian Simon Ball turns Alamein on its head, explaining it as a cultural defeat for Britain. Alamein is a military history of the battle - showing how different it looks stripped of later cultural excrescences. But it also shows how 'Alamein culture' saturated the post-war world, when archival sources mingled with film, novels, magazines, popular histories, and the rest of Alamein's footprint. Whether you are interested in the battle itself or its cultural afterlife, if you have an opinion about Alamein, you'll question it after reading this book.

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Oxford University Press

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0191504637

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9780191504631

Negotiating Positions

Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen

By: Simon Ward

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Negotiating Positions

Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen

By: Simon Ward

This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in Koeppen's writings, this book demonstrates that the politics of his works are inherent to their form. Through a series of close readings, the book explores the positive and negative aspects of liminality, a dominant trope in Koeppen’s works. Stressing the thematic and formal continuities of his oeuvre, the first section illustrates how his protagonists perpetually establish a space for themselves 'in between' states. The second section examines how Koeppen negotiates with the discourse of 'nation' during two central periods of his career. It shows how his experiences in the Third Reich and his reappraisal of the years prior to 1933 determine his perspective on modernity, modernism and Germany after 1945. Having defined the location of culture in his works, the book concludes by resituating Koeppen's writings within post-war West German literary culture.

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BRILL

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9004485783

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The Birth of Classical Europe

A History from Troy to Augustine

By: Simon Price,Peter Thonemann

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The Birth of Classical Europe

A History from Troy to Augustine

By: Simon Price,Peter Thonemann

An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrant civilizations. In The Birth of Classical Europe, the latest entry in the much-acclaimed Penguin History of Europe, historians Simon Price and Peter Thonemann present a fresh perspective on classical culture in a book full of revelations about civilizations we thought we knew. In this impeccably researched and immensely readable history we see the ancient world unfold before us, with its grand cast of characters stretching from the great Greeks of myth to the world-shaping Caesars. A landmark achievement, The Birth of Classical Europe provides insight into an epoch that is both incredibly foreign and surprisingly familiar.

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Penguin

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110147579X

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9781101475799

Themistius, Julian and Greek Political Theory under Rome

Texts, Translations and Studies of Four Key Works

By: Simon Swain

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Themistius, Julian and Greek Political Theory under Rome

Texts, Translations and Studies of Four Key Works

By: Simon Swain

A critical edition, translation and analysis of four texts illustrating the relation of kings and courtiers in the fourth-century Roman world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107026571

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9781107026575

Sustaining Literature

Essays on Literature, History, and Culture, 1500-1800 : Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey

By: Simon Varey

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Sustaining Literature

Essays on Literature, History, and Culture, 1500-1800 : Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey

By: Simon Varey

A collection of scholarly essays by leading scholars on texts, writers, and cultural interests that represent the interests of the late scholar of the Renaissance and the 18th century, Simon Varey.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838756565

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Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex

By: Simon C. Thomson

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Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex

By: Simon C. Thomson

In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.

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9004360867

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9789004360860

Think India

The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and what it Means for Every American

By: Vinay Rai,William L. Simon

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Think India

The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and what it Means for Every American

By: Vinay Rai,William L. Simon

An insider's account of India's transformation into one of the world's forefront economic powers documents such factors as the region's development by Fortune 500 companies and its partnership with the U.S. military, offering insight into India's rapidly growing role on the global stage.

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0525950206

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9780525950202

John Simon on Film

Criticism, 1982-2001

By: John Ivan Simon

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John Simon on Film

Criticism, 1982-2001

By: John Ivan Simon

(Applause Books). "I find John's critical writing immensely entertaining even when I'm not in agreement... He has the gift, such a rare one, of being able to analyze the work in question, to be able to say why it is that it's so powerful, so touching; or, on the other hand, so trite, so meretricious, or so banal... I find his reviews full of insights and perceptions that make reading a collection of this sort as exciting as reading a gripping novel. John's wit is dazzling and is never displayed for its own sake, but to drive home an aspect of the review... It was exciting for me to read through this collection and see such warm praise for so many films that I feel have been unjustly ignored." Bruce Beresford

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835071

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Metaphor

an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

By: Simon Unwin

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Metaphor

an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

By: Simon Unwin

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Metaphor is the most powerful component of the poetry of architecture. It has been a significant factor in architecture since the earliest periods of human history, when people were finding ways to give order and meaning to the world in which we live. It is arguable that architecture began with the realisation of metaphor in physical form, and that subsequent movements – from Greek to Gothic, Renaissance to Modern, Victorian to Vernacular... – have all been driven by the emergence or rediscovery of different metaphors by which architecture might be generated.

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Routledge

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1351696262

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State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity

Essays on the "ever-dying People"

By: Simon Rawidowicz

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State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity

Essays on the "ever-dying People"

By: Simon Rawidowicz

Philosophically rich and wide-ranging essays on Jewish history and culture.

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UPNE

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0874518466

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Alexander

The Boy Soldier who Conquered the World

By: Simon Adams

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Alexander

The Boy Soldier who Conquered the World

By: Simon Adams

A look at the life and times of the Macedonian general and king who conquered much of the civilized world.

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National Geographic World Hist

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Alamein

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Negotiating Positions

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The Birth of Classical Europe

The Birth of Classical Europe

Themistius, Julian and Greek Political Theory under Rome

Themistius, Julian and Greek Political Theory under Rome

Sustaining Literature

Sustaining Literature

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Think India

Think India

John Simon on Film

John Simon on Film

Metaphor

Metaphor

State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity

State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity

Alexander

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