GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER: FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY...
This is an essential study tool for students seeking to learn Japanese and dramatically improve their ability to read and write kanji and kana.
Students have been reading and writing the Japanese language for centuries, and they build their...
This book raises questions why our world is such, and not different, showing a lot of opportunities to create other worlds, in some ways similar, and in some things fundamentally different from ours. The book offers the highest moral law of 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...
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...