*A History of Australia* is a seminal multi-volume work by the Australian historian Charles Manning Hope Clark, dedicated to a comprehensive study of Australian history from the period of the first European explorations and colonisation to the...
*A History of Australia* is a seminal multi-volume work by the Australian historian Charles Manning Hope Clark, dedicated to a comprehensive study of Australian history from the period of the first European explorations and colonisation to the...
*A History of Australia* is a seminal multi-volume work by the Australian historian Charles Manning Hope Clark, dedicated to a comprehensive study of Australian history from the period of the first European explorations and colonisation to the...
The major work of fiction in this collection, ‘A History of Books’, explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty nine sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image in the writer’s mind. The...
While many excellent works deal at length with special periods or topics of geographical discovery, no single book covers the whole ground in a manner quite suited to the needs of the increasing number of students now reading honours courses in...
"An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on...
Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and...
The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition
'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington Post
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded...