Mary Pickering 
Auguste Comte: Volume 3 [PDF ebook] 
An Intellectual Biography

This new study of the Meiji Government”s controversial Education Minister and thinker, Mori Arinori, seeks to complement Ivan P. Hall”s excellent earlier biography (1973) by providing an alternativ …

This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to co …

________________________ THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR OF BEN WATT”S BATTLE WITH A RARE ILLNESS ________________________ ”Intensely moving” – Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph ”Quiet elegance and r …

Beloved as the family storyteller, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford left behind at her death in 1987 diaries, letters, scrapbooks and memorabilia that date back to the Civil War and provide a picture of a w …

As the western world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden has fought to keep his personal life a mystery – loyalty and fear keeping those who know him from speaking out – until now. For the first …

Constantin von Tischendorf was a pioneer. He existed in an age when biblical studies as we know it was being formed, when the quest for forgotten manuscripts and lost treasures was being undertaken w …

In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, …

Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the E …

This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 – 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles …