Editors. — DK Publishing, 2016. — 128 p. — ISBN: 978-1465444264. Applying quirky illustrations and fun, informative text, 100 Events That Made History takes a look at the key events — from blood thirsty battles and rebellious revolutions to curious coincidences and unfortunate accidents — from the past that have helped shape our present. Full of history and history-makers, 100...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company Publishers, 1874. — 373 p. There can scarcely anything be found in the literature of our language, more wild and wonderful, than the narrative contained in this volume. The extraordinary career of Captain Kidd, a New York merchant, the demoniac feats of those fiends in human form, Bonnet, Barthelemy, and Lolonois; the romantic history of the...
Chichester: Summersdale Publishers, 2006. — 288 p. In these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber the fairer sex get it in the neck. You have been warned. From the Yorkshire Witch, who was accused of murder when a potion for good health turned out to be fatal, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this book is...
London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2004. — 400 p. The Dorling Kindersley History of the World starts with the origins of life on earth and ends in the 1990s. It is a visual journey into the past. The timespan of the book is divided into 20 chapters, and a fully illustrated map introduces the most important events of each period. A specially designed timechart follows, which...
London: Future Publishing, 2018. — 148 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). The notion of the lost city is steeped in mystery and adventure, and the inevitable uncertainty that surrounds the disappearance of a civilisation that once thrived. Ancient History’s Lost Cities examines why certain cities became abandoned, as well as how several were rediscovered...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. — XX, 512, 23 p. These scenes from life in ancient Greece focus on a young Athenian returning from abroad. He is involved in a series of adventures that illustrate everyday life in Athens, Corinth and other towns. One of the most interesting parts of this fictional biography is the author's 'excursuses', essays on various subjects relevant...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 38 p. A delightful illustrated introduction to the greatest achievements of the ancient world and published in cooperation with the British Museum, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a fascinating look at the ancient technological marvels that continue to captivate children and adults today. Each chapter focuses on a specific monument and...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 186 p. Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant...
Praeger, 2007. — 217 p. Greek Piracy Odysseus: Hero and Pirate Greeks and Barbarians Greek vs. Greek Greek vs. Macedonian The Romans The Romans Take Decisive Action The Pirates of Cilicia The Scourge of the Mediterranean The End of Mediterranean Piracy The Vikings “From Merciless Invaders...” The Rus Conversion and Containment The Worldwide Struggle against Piracy The...
Bucher Greta. Everyday life in Imperial Russia. Greenwod, 2008. - 263 p. Language: English. The book tell the reader about warfare, class conflict, royal scandal, and the rise and fall of empire. This volume examines czarist Russia through the social and material lens, including changes in court life, peasant life, the Orthodox church, and the effects of emancipation and...
Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2004. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0785818561. A History of Pirates looks at the reality behind these legends and reveals a world often as gripping as anything acted out by Errol Flynn. It portrays the pirates, their weapons, their ships, their victims and their hideouts, including the 'pirate capital city' Port Royal on Jamaica, the 'wickedest city in...
Dorling Kindersley, 2016. — 377 p. — ISBN: 978-0-2412-2590-5. Understand how and why we got where we are today with Big History. From the formation of our universe to the present day, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth. Big History brings together an incredible range of perspectives, using multiple disciplines including physics and sociology to...
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. — 388 p. When the ship is ready for launching there comes a moment of tense excitement before the dogshores are knocked away and she slides down the ways. In the case of a ship this excitement is shared by many thousands, who have assembled to acclaim the birth of a perfected product of the industry of man; the emotion is shared by all...
The History Press, 2011. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0752459473; ISBN13: 978-0752459479. Explaining the mechanics of torture — even now a controversial topic — this history questions why so much effort has been put into causing pain to fellow human beings. Taking readers into the ancient Roman coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 352 p. La única compilación en castellano de todos los engaños, plagios, manipulaciones y timos de la historia de la humanidad, desde los más pequeños hasta los grandes golpes. Gregorio Doval emprende en Fraudes, engaños y timos de la historia la nada desdeñable tarea de presentar, dividido en 10 grandes secciones temáticas, el relato de los timos,...
New York, NY: Ibooks, 2005. — 259 p. — ISBN: 1-4165-0416-8. To produce what one intends to be an authoritative reference book from sources as dubious as those I have used is perhaps foolhardy. And perhaps that's why more scholarly researchers have avoided the attempt. My only excuse can be that I offer this volume as the opening statement of a conversation. I hope that it will...
London T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. — 440 p. Why is it that a little spice of deviltry lends not an unpleasantly titillating twang to the great mass of respectable flour that goes to make up the pudding of our modern civilization? And pertinent to this question another Why is it that the pirate has, and always has had, a certain lurid glamour of the heroical enveloping him round...
Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1992. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-87380-176-8. The first three Parts of this work were originally written in Dutch by Alex. Olivier Exquemelin (1645-1707) — anglicized as John Esquemeling; and published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title De Americaensche Zeerovers . A Spanish translation by A. de Buena-Maison, under the title Piratas de la America ,...
Broomall, Pa.: Mason Crest, 2003. 64 p. Origins of mankind; Handy Man. Man the hunter, Neanderthals and others. Modern humans; Cave painters. The Stone Ages; The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. Megaliths; Archaeology. The first farms; The first cities. Mesopotamia and Sumer; Indus civilization. Great migrations; The beginnings of Egypt. Babylon. First Chinese emperors; Egyptian...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1914. — 255 p. Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? Well, you won’t be the first person who has. The pirate’s life sounds pretty exciting. Sailing the seven seas. Capturing galleons full of gems and bars of silver, even beautiful ladies. Rings in your ears. Red kerchief tied over your head. A bristling musnfche. Perhaps a patch over your eye, and a...
2nd ed. — Visible Ink Press, 2006. — 673 p. When I was asked to research and write the first edition of this book, my first thought was that history — with decade upon decade of fugitive dates, people, and places — was particularly well-suited to the Handy Answer Book format. My second thought was that it could not be done. History was too big a subject to squeeze itself into a...
New York: Robert M. Mcbride and Company, 1922. — 159 p. Time, though a good Collector, is not always a reliable Historian. That is to say, that although nothing of interest or importance is lost, yet an affair may be occasionally invested with a glamour that is not wholly its own. I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in this particular. We are apt to base our ideas of...
New York: Tudor Publishing Co, 1922. — 658 p. We returned to Carthagena, to be at hand should any opportunity occur for Jamaica, and were lounging about one forenoon on the fortifications, looking with sickening hearts out to seaward, when a voice struck up the following negro ditty close to us: " Fader was a Corramantee, Moder was a Mingo, Black picaniny buccra wantee, So dem...
Dorling Kindersley, 1999. — 390 p. — ISBN: 0751357685 (ISBN13: 9780751357684) A new approach to world history from an international standpoint. A complete history of the world, from the beginnings of life to the present day , Explains the main events in world history, continent by continent, year by year . Contains 20 fully illustrated timecharts that show contemporary events...
Doubleday, 1990. — 365 p. Why begin earlier than the birth of the universe? Includes the evolution of life on earth, the origin of sex, the first humans, the early civilizations of the Middle East, ancient Israel, and a full 150 p. on ancient Greece.
N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 1994. — 311 p. Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that "Publishers Weekly" selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info. Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other...
Dorling Kindersley, 2016. — 354 p. — (Big Ideas Simply Explained). — ISBN: 1465445102. The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance, the...
DK Publishing, 2014. — 362 p. — ISBN: 978-1465419385. 2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I — DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial and design team, World War I charts the...
Guías Eyewitness, 2004. — 72 p. Muchas de estas fortificaciones de la Edad Media siguen hoy en día en pie en la actualidad lo que permite que el misterio que les rodea siga despertando la curiosidad a todos. A través de este libro podrá descubrir el excitante mundo de los castillos medievales y cómo vivían las gentes que se protegían entre sus poderosas almenas.
Wadsworth, 2004. - 784 p. Greer/Lewis's "A Brief History of the Western World" gives you a comprehensive view of the development of Western civilization in half the pages of other texts. Each chapter provides broad coverage of political, social, cultural, and religious themes. Review "This is the best one-volume survey of Western history that I know of. Unlike most such texts,...
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1933. — 336 p. There is no theme in the gamut of the literature of travel and adventure that has a more absorbing interest to the ordinary reader, young or old, man or woman, than tales of Piracy on the High Seas. Distance ever lends enchantment, and though, in truth, these men were but sea robbers and their history a record of crime, the...
Historic Scotland, 2010. — 84 p. The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural heritage survives, above all in the form of hundreds of incised and carved stones, many marked...
Bournemouth: Imagine Publishing Ltd., 2014. — 130 p. — ISSN: 2055-7078. A complete guide to everything that’s ever happened in the world! More than 80 amazing illustrations inside. In this issue: How big were dinosaurs? What the first human did. Mightiest empires. Famous pirates. Wild West outlaws. The Moon landing. Creation of Earth. The fi rst animals. Dinosaurs. Early...
Chronicle Books LLC, 2018. — 307 p. — ISBN: 1452168539, ASIN: B07F4XL39R. Truly stranger than fiction, this daily illustrated collection of unusual trivia provides readers fascinating detail on some of the weirdest moments in history. Drawing from a range of subjects including politics, sports, the arts, pop culture, and more, each day of the year explores one What the fact or...
Southwater, 2000. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-84215-072-3. Step into two million years of human history and explore the wonders of the ancient world. Discover how our Stone Age ancestors lived and how hunters became farmers and began to settle down. Explore the culture and beliefs of the Egyptian people and enter an amazing world of gold-topped pyramids and mummified pharaohs. Take a...
Orlando, Florida: Family Learning, 1998. — 128 p. — (Eyewitness Anthologies). — ISBN: 0-7894-3789-9. This book shows the great importance of the eastern Mediterranean in creating the major civilizations of the ancient world, from the lands and peoples of the Bible to the Greeks and the Romans. The first part of the book discusses the Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians,...
Beck, 2010. — 130 S. Die Pyramiden geben der Wissenschaft auch heute noch Rätsel auf. Dieser Band faßt knapp und informativ die aktuellen Erkenntnisse über die Pyramiden zusammen. Er enthält die eindrucksvolle Geschichte der monumentalen Bauwerke, ihrer Errichtung, Entdeckung und Erforschung und stellt zudem die wichtigsten Pyramidenanlagen vor.
New York, NY: Lyons Press, 1998. — 388 p. — ISBN: 978-1-55821-766-9. The text in this book is taken from the 1925 edition of Captain Johnson's History . This was the third edition of the book and was an updated version of the original 1724 edition with three more pirate biographies added to the original thirteen. After much discussion it has been decided to add the biography of...
New York, NY: Lyons Press, 1999. — 195 p. — ISBN: 1-55821-969-2. The History of Pirates traces piracy from the seas of antiquity to the New World and beyond. Piracy flourished in the early eighteenth century, even Julius Caesar was captured by pirates-and it still exists today; boats sailing through the South China Sea are regulary attacked by modern-day buccaneers. Detailed...
The Lyons Press, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-599214-74-1. Lively, accessible text by pirate expert Angus Konstam explains how piracy grew and flourished from the early buccaneers to the rogues of popular legends, how it has been snuffed out, and how it has reared its head again with the machine-gun-toting pirates operating on today’s high seas.
Fair Winds Press, 2010. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1592334438. Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid major ships and pillage...
ABC-CLIO, 2010. — 868 p. — ISBN: 978-1-598842-01-3. The real world of piracy is brought vividly to life in this authoritative and entertaining new two-volume reference. Incorporating a wealth of new research, Pirates of the Americas offers hundreds of entries on the most famous — and infamous — buccaneers of the 1600s and 1700s, separating fact from fancy as it describes the...
New York, NY: Atheneum, 1984. — 175 p. — ISBN: 0-689-31029-3. This is the story of that bold breed of men (and sometimes women) who roamed the seas in search of other people's wealth. When Spain claimed all the New World for itself, English sea dogs, such as Jack Hawkins and Francis Drake, robbed the Spanish treasure houses of the colonies to help Queen Elizabeth wage...
Revised Edition. — Bluestocking Press, 2003. — 250 p. — (Uncle Eric Book). — ISBN10: 0942617428; ISBN13: 978-0942617429 The explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the beginning of a chain reaction that eventually led to the destruction of the World Trade center and still continues today. In his two-part World War series, author Richard J. Maybury...
Chicago: Childrens Press, 1963. — 131 p. Discusses piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focusing on the lives and infamous deeds of Peter Francis, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Stede Bonnet.
Second edition. — HarperCollins e-books, 2007. — 324 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-156227-3. a note on names; ancient Egyptian chronology; lists of pictures and maps; The two lands; Houses of eternity; The good shepherd; The fight for freedom; The woman who was king; The conqueror; The power and the glory; The great heresy; The broken reed; The long dying; additional reading; sources of...
ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014 - 554 p. - ISBN: 978-1-61069-477-3. The book not only explores the history and origins of widely recognizable symbols, like the Christian cross and the Star of David but also introduces readers to more obscure symbols from religious traditions around the world — even defunct ones like those of the ancient Aztec and Mayan societies. In addition, the book...
Icon Books, 2007. — 350 p. — ISBN: 978-1840468-28-1. This is the stunning popular history of 100 years (1845-1945) of Anglo-German love/hate. Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda. In August 1914, Britain's first act of war was not to mobilise its army or the Grand Fleet. It was to cut cables preventing German...
Dorling Kindersly, 2012. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0756698188. From the Wright brothers' first flight and the First Russian Revolution to the horrors of war, to the development of motor and air travel and the birth of the digital revolution, the changes seen in the twentieth century were global in scope and monumental in terms of impact. Modern History in Pictures: A Visual Guide to...
DK Publishing, 2012. — 322 p. — ISBN: 1409383911. From global wars to the digital revolution, explore the world-changing events of the 20th century decade-by-decade with 20th Century. This is history as you've never seen it before - the events, the people and the political and cultural milestones that have shaped our world using a fresh new approach. All the significant...
Weston, 2013. — 98 p. The lost Canary Islands - in the Atlantic Ocean - are a mystery in themselves. Since ancient times the islands have been surrounded by a halo of mysticism; that increased since the Europeans made their first incursions, and discovered the strange race that lived in them. The old descriptions tell us that both men and women stood out for their beauty and...
Piat, Denis. Editions Didier Millet. 2014. 144 p. ISBN: 9814385662. At the beginning of the 17th century, pirates infested the Caribbean waters, harassing the major European powers, but they were eventually driven from the region. Some pirates took refuge in Madagascar, where they attempted to capture the lucrative cargo carried by vessels on the shipping route of the European...
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DK Publishing, 2015 - 363 p. World War II: The Definitive Visual History is a comprehensive, authoritative, yet accessible guide to the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of World War II. Perhaps the most complex, frightening, and destructive event in global history, the Second World War saw the heights of human courage and the depth of human degradation. World War...
Yorkshire – Philadelphia: Pen & Sword Books, 2019. - 178 p. Witch'is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical and dangerous. A History of Women in Medicine: Cunning Women, Physicians, Witches reveals the untold story of...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1898. — 325 p. When I was a boy I strongly desired to be a pirate, and the reason for this was the absolute independence of that sort of life. Restrictions of all sorts had become onerous to me, and in my reading of the adventures of the bold sea-rovers of the main, I had unconsciously selected those portions of a pirate's life which were attractive...
New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1980. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-8128-2580-2. The purpose of this book is to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective, taking in the whole panorama of sexual attitudes, customs, and practices in all the world's major civilizations from earliest times until the present day. In effect, it is...
Third edition. — Penguin Canada, 2009. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 014316967X; ISBN13: 978-0143169673. Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great indigenous cultures — Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois. Through their eloquent words, we...
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