The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
10 best books like The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (Colin McEvedy): The World According to Garp, The Worldly Philosophers, The Book in the Renaissance, Four Ways to Forgiveness, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950 - 1250, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions
The World According to Garp
| Author | John Irving |
| ISBN | 0345915593 |
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet...
| Author | Robert L. Heilbroner |
The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly...
The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit,...
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling...
| Author | R.I. Moore |
| ISBN | 0631171452 |
The 10th to the 13th centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition, expropriation and mass murder of Jews, the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy. These have...
| Author | Lucien Febvre |
| ISBN | 1859841082 |
Books, & the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance & heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre...
| Author | Peter Burke |
| ISBN | 1859281028 |
This study examines the popular culture of pre-industrial Europe and describes the world of the professional entertainer - minstrels, fools, jugglers - and considers the songs, stories and plays performed by ordinary people. It shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate were...
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
| Author | Lucette Lagnado |
| ISBN | 0060822120 |
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the...
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187
| Author | Steven Runciman |
| ISBN | 0521347718 |
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. As Runciman says in his...
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0312862113 |
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds Of Exile And Illusion. These novels, Rocannon's World, Planet Of Exile, and City Of Illusions, are set in...
