The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504. The narrative begins with the French conquest of much of Italy....
This is a unique study of the conflict of 1914-18 on land, sea and in the air, through the use of maps, diagrams and illustrations. The book corrects many long established errors and misconceptions...
This series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject...
Anthology for Music in the Baroque, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Baroque. Thirty-one carefully chosen works - including a lute song aby John...
"Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters." "Sunday Times" (London). " In "Mozart's Letters,...
What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programmes? How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and...
No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to a game of...
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female...
Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result...
Stephen Greenblatt tells the life history of the account of the first man and the first woman - central to all three of the world's monotheistic religions and the object of innumerable...