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  • Bismarck: A Life

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Bismarck:A Life

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of Guilt: Thriller

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    An exciting thriller with surprising twists and turns - When the law suddenly changes sides...Alex, a former inspector, has retired from the police force after a serious incident - but the shadows of the past won't let him go. When his son Steven mysteriously disappears, a nerve-wracking race against time begins. What begins as a search for the truth soon develops into a shocking revelation that ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bismarck: A Life

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • All or Nothing

    The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors of the Jews were no philo-Semites, nor were they (often) great respecters of human life. Some of those same officers had sanctioned savage ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Why Switzerland?

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once for candidates, with extremely complicated systems of proportional representation; a collective and consensual executive leadership in both state ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Bismarck

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Extensions and Restrictions of Generalized Probabilistic Theories

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Generalized probabilistic theories (GPTs) allow us to write quantum theory in a purely operational language and enable us to formulate other, vastly different theories. As it turns out, there is no canonical way to integrate the notion of subsystems within the framework of convex operational theories. Sections can be seen as generalization of subsystems and describe situations where not all ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Why Switzerland?

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, communal autonomy, its universal military service, its wealth, and four national languages make it interesting in itself. But it has wider significance, in representing the 'Europe that did not happen', the Europe that escaped the centralisation of state and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The History of the Renaissance World

    From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world.Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Absolute Monarchs

    A History of the Papacy

    by John Julius Norwich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

    From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world.From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD