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019058
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London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
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448pWhite spine
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Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino.; In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behavior. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy. Alex weaves a journey from primary school to university level maths, from ancient history to the computing frontline, and from St Louis, Missouri, to Braintree, Essex. He meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany, consults a numerologist in the US desert, meets a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan, and seeks advice from a venerable Hindu sage in India. An unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs, Alex's dispatches from 'Numberland' show the world of maths to be a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.
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9781408809594 Pb.
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009788
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 2000.
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160pBlue spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.
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9781853260759 Pb.
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000501
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Great Britain, Usborne Publishing Ltd., 1995.
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94pGreen Spine
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Traces the course of time from the beginning of the universe right upto the present day. Uses different types of decorative maps to depict historical scenes, while map sequences show major world events as well.
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The earth begins
The first people
Civilization begins
Ancient cities
Languages
Ancient Egypt
The ancient Greeks
The Roman empire
The great invaders
World religions
Great empires
Europe's new age
Feudal Europe
Clash of empires
The crusades
The mongols
The Renaisance
Exploring the world
The reformation
Power in Europe
The Russian empire
China - the middle kingdom
The slave trade
The rise of Japan
Industrial revolution
The age of revolutions
The right to vote
The birth of the USA
Colonial fever
The early 1900's
World War One
Between the wars
World War Two
New nations
The cold war
The developing world
The 20th century ends
World time chart
Glossary
Map index
Index
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746017286 Hb.
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003086
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Great Britain, Cassell Illustrated, 2005.
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288pBlack Spine
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A definitive look at the endings that have left their mark on our world today.
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1844032590 Hb.
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018773
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New York, Scholastic Entertainment Inc., 2002.
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49min.Blue Spine
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Horrible Histories
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It follows the wild adventures of best friends Stitch and Mo with the help of a portal through time, these teenagers experiences gross, gory and glorious historical events firsthand.
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Challenging China
Wild west
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1 VCD.
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Dateline: Troy
/ Fleischman, Paul; Frankfeldt, Gwen; Morrow, Glenn
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1996
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Cambridge, Candlewick Press, 1996.
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80pBlack Spine
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In this edition the author juxtaposes the account of the Trjan War with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war to the War on Terror. As the story unfolds, striking similarities between the world of Homer's Illiad and our contemporary world become clear. Proud Achilles, prophetic Cassandra, crafty Odysseus, and all the rest are reflected in our leaders, enemies, and next-door neighbours - they are alive and making headlines! This book shows the relevance of the past and the resonance of the present.
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0763630845 Pb.
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012200
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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v, 266pDark blue spine
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The period 1919 to 1989 was witness to major international changes in the global scenario, such as the emergence of the USA as the world's most influential country.
The focus of the book is the problems of the First World War, the resulting peace treaties and the factors leading to the Second World War.
Origins and course of the Cold War are explained, with emphasis on Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Illustrated, with a range of primary sources.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1919-39
The treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations 1919-29
International diplomacy 1919-29
The decline of international co-operation 1929-32
The road to war 1933-39
THE USSR 1924-53
The rise of Stalin 1924-29
Stalin's revolution
Show trials and purges
Foreign policy in rhe 1930's and the great Patriotic War 1941-45
The USSR in Europe 1945-53
THE COLD WR IN EUROPE 1945-91
The origins of the Cold War
Early stages 1946-49
Fluctuating relations Europe 1949-68
From detente to the Second Cold War 1969-85
The end of the Cold War 1985-91
THE COLD WAR IN ASIA AND THE AMERICAS 1949-75
China and the Cold War
The Korean War 1950-53
Indochina and Vietnam 1954-63
The Vietnam War 1964-75
The Cuban revolution and the Americas
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9780521777971 Pb.
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013710
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Paris, Nathan, 2006.
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40pBlack Spine
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A large format book full of vivid illustrations to discover the periods and the most important events of human history. From Prehistory to the present world, through Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the monarchy, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and World Wars. With a portrait of the main characters in the story and a 4-page quiz to test your knowledge while having fun!
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9782092512852 Pb.
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| 013624 | 909/CHA | Main | On Shelf | General | French |
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019013
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New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014.
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xiii, 302pBlack spine
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Contains a series of fifteen lectures originally delivered to undergraduates at Yale University.
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1.Rousseau's Challenge to Modernity
2.Tocqueville and Liberty
3.J.S. Mill and the Nineteenth Century
4.The Turn to Subjectivity
5.Medievalism and the Invention of the Renaissance
6.Nature Historicised
7.Darwin and Creation
8.Marx and the Transcendent Working Class
9.The Cult of the Artist
10.Nationalism
11.Race and Anti-Semitism
12.Wagner
13.The Ideology of Separate Gender Spheres
14.Old Faiths and New
15.Nietzsche
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9780300207293 Hb.
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004606
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London, Little, Brown and Company, 2005.
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576pBlack Spine
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Describes the major turning points in the history of the world, selected for their lasting importance, including politics, battles, inventions, discoveries, disasters, artistic and literary achievements, death of famous leaders,etc.
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Introduction
The ancient world
The medieval and the Renaissance world
The enlightened world
The nineteenth century world
The modern world
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0316027162 Pb.
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022250
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London, Viking, 2010.
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310pRed spine
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9780670918874 Pb.
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019444
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New York, Time, 2009.
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122pBlack Spine
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Relates the fascinating tales behind history's greatest discoveries: the prehistoric painted caves of France, the undersea tomb of the Titanic, the sources of the Nile, the tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamen, the lost city of Machu Picchu, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the continental drift.
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The shock of revelation
The geography of discovery
Exploring the past
Exploring Planet Earth
Exploring life on Earth
Exploring the solar system
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7099210620 Pb.
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015425
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New York, HarperCollins, 2009.
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326pLilac spine
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The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a gruelling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior numbers with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse. Feifer's extensive research includes eye-opening interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict.
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9780061143182 Hb.
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020396
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New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
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498pOrange spine
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.
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9780393317558 Pb.
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020913
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Historium
/ Nelson, Jo; Wilkinson, Richard (ill.)
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2015
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Surrey, Big Picture Press, 2015.
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95pGrey Spine
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Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, functionality, war, life, death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years of human history!"
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Welcome to Historium
What is Archaeology
Timeline of hisotrium objects
Africa -
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Ancient Egypt
America -
The Olmec
The Maya
The Aztecs
The Hopewell
The Pueblo
Asia -
Ancient India
Ancient China
Ancient Japan
Ancient Korea
Europe -
The Celts
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
The Vikings
The Middle East -
Mesopotamia
The ancient Levant
Ancient Persia
Early Islam
Oceania -
Indigenous Australians
Melanesia
Polynesia
The Māori
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9781783701889 Hb.
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London, Thames & Hudson, 1977.
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767pBrown Spine
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Professor Janson guides the reader through more than twenty thousand years of painting, architecture and sculpture from the earliest primitive markings on rocks and stones to pop art and photo realism, from cave dwellings to glass and ferro-concrete skyscrapers, from paleolithic figurines to mobiles and earthworks. He has also taken care to emphasize the social, political and religious backgrounds which brought about the different art forms.
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024479
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London, Pan Macmillan, 2013.
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xxii, 614pBlue spine
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Andrew Marr, author of two bestselling histories of Great Britain now turns his attention to the world as a whole. A New History of the World takes readers from the Mayans to Mongolia, from the kingdom of Benin to the court of the Jagiellonian kings of Poland. Traditional histories of this kind have tended to be Euro-centric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here, Marr widens the lens, concentrating as much, if not more on the Americas, Africa and Asia. Instead of focusing on one episode of history taking place in one place, he draws surprising parallels and makes fascinating connections, focusing on a key incident or episode to tell a larger story: for instance, the liberation of the serfs in Russia, which took place at the same time as the American Civil War, which resulted in the abolition of slavery in the US. But he begins the account with an episode in the life of Tolstoy, who racked up huge gambling debts and had to sell land and slaves as a result.
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pt. One Out Of The Heat, Towards The Ice
pt. Two The Case For War
pt. Three The Sword And The Word
pt. Four Beyond The Muddy Melting Pot
pt. Five The World Blows Open
pt. Six Dreams Of Freedom
pt. Seven Capitalism And Its Enemies
pt. Eight 1918-2012: Our Times
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9781447236825 Pb.
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London, Scholastic, 2011.
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93pYellow Spine
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An imaginative take on history for children. Uses examples from the past to show how you can start your own empire, conquer your neighbours or stage your own industrial revolution.
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The Ancient world
The Middle Ages
The early modern world
Industry and Empire
The modern world
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9781407121536 Hb.
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Gurugram, Penguin Random House, 2007.
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xxvii, 578pBrown spine
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The Last Mughal is a portrait of the dazzling Delhi Zafar personified, the story of the last days of the great Mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe of 1857. William Dalrymple's retelling of this fateful course of events is shaped from groundbreaking material: previously untranslated Urdu and Persian manuscripts that include Indian eyewitness accounts, and the records of the Delhi courts, police, and administration during the siege. The last Mughal is an extraordinary revisionist work with clear contemporary echoes. It is the first account to present the Indian perspective on the siege, and has at its heart the stories of the forgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.
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List of Illustrations ix
Maps xii
Dramatis Personae xv
Acknowledgements xxv
Introduction 1 (26)
A Chessboard King 27 (31)
Believers and Infidels 58 (27)
An Uneasy Equilibrium 85 (29)
The Near Approach of the Storm114 (29)
The Sword of the Lord of Fury 143 (50)
This Day of Ruin and Riot 193 (37)
A Precarious Position 230 (27)
Blood for Blood 257 (48)
The Turn of the Tide 305 (41)
To Shoot Every Soul 346 (47)
The City of the Dead 393 (53)
The Last of the Great Mughals 446 (41)
Glossary 487 (10)
Notes 497 (52)
Bibliography 549 (12)
Index 561
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New York, Amacom, 2007.
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viii, 304pYellow Spine
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On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, he was completely unprepared for what he discovered. Beyond the anti-American sentiment he expected, he found a complex, curious people whose lives were made even more difficult by an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. Live from Jordan is the story, told via his letters home, of Orbach's one year trip through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, and Turkey. As he begins his unforgettable jo.
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Introduction
Part One: The Arab Street
Part Two: From American Superstar to Baby Killer
Part Three: Living the Life
Part Four: The Beating Heart of the Arab East
Epilogue
Glossary
Acknowledgments
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9780814474273 Hb.
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