The Russian Empire,...
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The Russian Plot to Seize Galicia (Austrian...
Richard Pipes’s
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
“Masterful and timely … [Pipes’s] history blends uncannily with today’s … headlines.… A brilliantly focused portrait.”
—Newsweek
“Pipes’s compellingly written account … is … a...
This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups,...
This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White émigrés contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the...
IT'S A HARD DAY'S WORK, HUSTLING FOR AN HONEST DRACHMA Menedemos and Sostratos, those dauntless traders of the third century B.C., have set sail again--this time to Phoenicia. There Menedemos will spend the summer wheeling and dealing, while...
Альтернативная история, История
The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone, Book Three of the Vergil Magus Series
The Last Manuscript of a Master
It began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus…
After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great...
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures...
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific Revolution." New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could...
Другие научные, История
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book,...