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Waterloo - Andrew Roberts
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Wa... -
Venusian Lullaby - Paul Leonard
SUMMARY:The TARDIS brings the third Doctor, Jo, and Captain Yates to Nooma, a planet in the midst of an industrial revolution. There, they discover that survival of the fitt... -
Velvet, Leather & Lace - Suzanne Forster; Donna Kauffman
SUMMARY: Hot new catalogue company, Velvet, Leather and Lace, is launching a revolution in lingerie--and partners Jamie, Samantha, and Mia are coming apart as fast as their wispy n... -
Trotsky - Dmitri Volkogonov
'Absorbing! I now place Volkogonov's great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times Fol... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith; Amartya Sen
The 250th-anniversary edition of the influential treatise on social responsibility that has shaped leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama Best known for his revolutionary free-mar... -
The Relentless Revolution_ A Hi - Joyce Appleby
The Relentless Revolution: A History Of Capitalism -
The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S. Szasz
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about ... -
The Last Manchu - Henry Pu Yi
In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young em... -
The American Revolution_ A Hist - Gordon S. Wood
Amazon.com ReviewGordon S. Wood's The American Revolution, part of the Modern Library Chronicles series, is an erudite, concise summary of the events and circumstances surrounding.... -
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. Th...