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  • Europe's Reformations, 1450–1650

    Doctrine, Politics, and Community

    by James D. Tracy ...
    Series series Critical Issues in World and International History
    In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex religious, political, and social processes that made change possible, even as he synthesizes new understandings of the profound continuities between ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Balkan Wars

    Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499–1617

    by James D. Tracy ...
    Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Until about 1580, Bosnia was a platform for Ottoman expansion, and Croatia steadily lost territory, while Venice focused on protecting the Dalmatian ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Prehistory

    The Making of the Human Mind

    by Colin Renfrew ...
    Series Book 30 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A History of Montenegro

    by Francis Seymour Stevenson ...
    The historical interest that attaches to Montenegro is utterly out of proportion to the space that country occupies on the surface of the earth. With the exception of the politically insignificant republics of San Marino and Andorra, and of the principalities of Monaco and Liechtenstein, it is the smallest unit in the aggregate of European states; and yet it is able to exhibit in the pages of its ... Read more

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  • The Demon Under the Microscope

    From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

    by Thomas Hager ...
    In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa saved millions of lives—among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Our Island Story

    by H.E. Marshall ...
    Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel

    Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)

    Translated by Edith Borchardt ...
    by Brigitte Hamann ...
    Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges of the aristocracy. He vehemently opposed nationalism and anti-Semitism and fought for ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Eureka!

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Peter Jones ...
    The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical, and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated ... Read more

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  • The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English

    The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan

    by Anna Wojtyś ...
    Series Book 51 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods allows the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language. The discussion ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Albion

    by John Thomson, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 11th of May 1825, the Albion sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 56 men, 52 women and 83 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to ... Read more

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  • Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century

    Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples

    by Boris Golec ...
    Series Book 3 - Thought, Society, Culture
    This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing the original Slovene name, which at that time had a «pre-national» content and was also used by a ... Read more

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  • Drive

    A Road Trip Through Our Complicated Affair With The Automobile

    by Tim Falconer ...
    Liberation, lust, envy, rage, power, thrill—our cars provoke enough emotion to jam a six-lane highway.If you name your ride, reminisce about sex in the back seat or enjoy roaring down the open road, you know why we love our wheels. But if you hate traffic, curse at the price at the pump or fight over parking spaces, you know why we hate them too.Drive is a cross-continent adventure that explores ... Read more

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