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  • A History of the Middle Ages

    World Events from 400 CE to 1500 CE

    by Phyllis Jestice ...
    A fascinating account of one of the most important eras in history spanning the breadth of the globe and illustrated throughout with brilliant full-colour illustrations.A History of the Middle Ages follows the history of the world through the turbulent times after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the year 1492, when contact between Europe and the Americas reshaped world history.This book ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    History of the Middle Ages, A

    World Events from 400 CE to 1500 CE

    by Phyllis G. Jestice ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    This fascinating guide examines of one of the most important eras in history, the Middle Ages, spanning the breadth of the globe.Often misconceived as a dark 'between-time' between the ancient and modern eras, the Middle Ages was in fact a period of radical transformation. Professor of Medieval History Phyllis G. Jestice gives a fascinating overview of this incredible period across the world, ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pharaohs

    by Dr Phyllis G Jestice ...
    Series series History in Photographs
    Includes pharaohs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BCE) to Cleopatra (30 BCE)Illustrated with 180 artworks and photographsPresents well-known stories afresh and brings to the fore lesser-known pharaohs ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty

    Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany

    by Phyllis G. Jestice ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries. Theophanu and Adelheid were two of the most influential figures in the Ottonian reich along with their husbands, who relied heavily on their support. Phyllis G. Jestice examines an array of factors that produced their power and prestige, including ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • The Neanderthals

    by Stephanie Muller, Friedemann Shrenk ...
    Translated by Phyllis Jestice ...
    Series series Peoples of the Ancient World
    The Neanderthal is among the most mysterious relatives of Homo sapiens: Was he a dull, club-swinging muscleman, or a being with developed social behaviour and the ability to speak, to plan precisely, and even to develop views on the afterlife?For many, the Neanderthals are an example of primitive humans, but new discoveries suggest that this image needs to be revised. Half a million years ago in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Crusades

    by Nikolas Jaspert ...
    Translated by Phyllis Jestice ...
    This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades.With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe and some of the Middle East, The Crusades is clear, concise and more wide-ranging than most single-volume ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

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    by Danny Vendramini ...
    Put aside everything you thought you knew about Neanderthals. Evolutionary detective Danny Vendramini's meticulous research shows they were not docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores: the 'apex predators' of the stone age. And everything else—including humans—was their prey.Vendramini's Neanderthal predation theory argues that the evolution of modern humans—including our unique ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World From Beginnings To 4000 Bce

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both fossil and archaeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    by Clive Finlayson ...
    Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • Martin Luther

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever.Within a few years Luther’s ideas had spread l... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Templars

    by Dan Jones ...
    Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar.'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose' The Times'Another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' O.. ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD

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  • The Templars

    The Secret History Revealed

    by Barbara Frale ...
    Translated by Gregory Conti ...
    Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years, the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD