The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era

10 best books like The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Jessica Amanda Salmonson): Old Yeller, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, Immortal Hulk, Volume 1: Or is he Both?, The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths, History of the Conquest of Mexico, The Ides, The Doha Experiment: A Liberal Education in the Arab World, After The Ides

Old Yeller

Author	Fred Gipson
ISBN	0060935472

At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller.

The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.

Strong and courageous, Old Yeller...

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris

Author	John Baxter
ISBN	0061998540

From the author of Immoveable Feast and We’ll Always Have Paris comes a guided tour of the most beautiful walks through the City of Light, including the favorite walking routes of the many of the acclaimed artists and writers who have called Paris their home. Baxter highlights hidden treasures along...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

Author	Toby Wilkinson
ISBN	0747599491

I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...

Immortal Hulk, Volume 1: Or is he Both?

Author	Al Ewing
ISBN	1302912550

THE RETURN OF BRUCE BANNER! You know Bruce Banner. He's quiet, calm, never complains. He's a man who believes he can use the darkest elements of his personality to do good in the world. If someone were to shoot him in the head... All he'd do is die. But the horror lives deeper. A horror that refuses to die....

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

Author	Justin McElroy
ISBN	1681883813

A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!

Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered...

Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths

Author

Susanne Alleyn

this is not a book on how to write historical fiction. It is a book on how not to write historical fiction.

If you love history and you’re hard at work on your first historical novel, but you’re wondering if your medieval Irishmen would live on potatoes, if your 17th-century pirate would use...

History of the Conquest of Mexico

Author	William H. Prescott
ISBN	0375758038

"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents...

The Ides

Author

Peter Tonkin

March, 44BC

Caesar is a dead man…

A plan to murder the most powerful political leader in the world is under way.

More than twenty assassins are directly involved.

Hundreds of others are aware of the plot, with thousands more hoping for its success.

Only...

The Doha Experiment: A Liberal Education in the Arab World

Author

Gary Wasserman

Gary Wasserman's decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. "In the beginning," he writes, "this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college." But he quickly discovers...

After The Ides

Author

Peter Tonkin

There is more blood to be spilt…

Rome, first century AD and the city is in political and civil turmoil following the murder of Julius Caesar, (now posthumously elevated to the title of Divus Julius).

Mark Antony, Divus Julius’ loyal co-consul and friend, is baying for blood, and...

Academia Obscura

Author	Glen Wright
ISBN	1783523417

If you think the groves of academe are all stuffiness, elbow patches and greying old men... think again.

Academia Obscura is an irreverent glimpse inside the ivory tower, exposing the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of university life. Take a trip through the spectrum of academic oddities...

Bear

Author	Marian Engel
ISBN	0879236671

She f*cked a bear.

She literally f*cked a bear.

No. This isn't some euphemism for a beefy gay man.

She motherf*cking literally f*cked a literal bear.

What. The. Hell.

Okay. So. I'm not a cultured reader. I read mostly YA and...well...that's about it....

The 99 Names of God: The “Esmaül-Hüsna” in the Qur’an and in the Bible

Author

Dan Wickwire

Blessed is the name of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor. – Rahman 55:78


Who is God? Men have come up with a wide range of answers to this age-old question. But a careful study of the Qur'an and the Bible reveal answers that may surprise you. This book presents and substantiates the 99...

The Roman Republic (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

Author

Michael Crawford

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.The loyalty of these marauding heroes, and of the Roman population as...

The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

Author

Duncan Ryan

While every schoolchild is familiar with the wonders of ancient Egypt and most are familiar, at least in passing, with the great civilizations of Assyria and Babylon in Mesopotamia, there is one great power of the ancient Near East that was, until just over a century ago, lost to history. This was the...

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China

Author	Raoul McLaughlin
ISBN	1473833744

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to...

Flight from Death

Author

Yasmine Galenorn

From New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn comes an all-new series set in the realm of her Otherworld novels.

I’m Shimmer, a blue dragon shifter. Thanks to a mistake, I was exiled from the Dragon Reaches and sentenced to work for Alex Radcliffe, a vampire who owns the Fly by Night...

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san, Vol. 1

Author	Honda
ISBN	1975358228

For many of us, bookstores are a place of magic and wonder: places we go to find a new story to lose ourselves in – but have you ever wondered what goes into running one? Here with the answers is Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san, which takes a look at what it means to work in a bookshop in Japan!

The...