A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final …
Shelve Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. T…
Shelve Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the ris…
Shelve Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recounts in a style that consistently entertains." --The New York Times Book Review
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the en…
Shelve 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.…
Shelve World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War e…
Shelve The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10. A barbarous, volatile feudal tsar wi…
Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history, which covers the period from the fall of the Rom…
Shelve A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authori…
Shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453, this title tells the story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Otto…
Shelve Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her passion for marine science and the sea's imperiled ecosystems.
More than a decade ago, Juli Berwald left a…
Shelve Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bl…
Shelve Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can …
This book is the first full-scale history of Carthage in decades. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In…
Shelve Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
Gregório de Matos é, historicamente, o primeiro grande poeta do Brasil. Sua obra, talvez a mais importante produzida pelo Barroco poético nas Américas portuguesa e espanhola, conserva ainda hoje grand…
A prática do suborno é comprovadamente milenar, demonstrando como a natureza humana tem sido, desde os primórdios, maléfica quanto a condutas pré-orientadas com menor ou maior grau de moralidade. Para…
Shelve O Segredo de Salomão: lições milenares sobre ética e compliance
"Há pessoas cujas vidas imploram para ser escritas. O problema é que, para que isso aconteça, essa pessoa precisa estar viva. E Barbara Gancia preferia flertar com a morte, …
Shelve A Saideira: Uma dose de esperança depois de anos lutando contra a dependência
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a cons…
The Knowledge of the Holy by popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates God’s attributes—from wisdom, to grace, to mercy—and in doing so, attempts to restore the majesty an…
