Tudor Jenks 
The Boys Book of Explorations [PDF ebook] 
True Stories of the Heroes of Travel and Discovery in Africa, Asia, and Australia; From the 'Dark Ages’ To the 'Wonderful Century’

The Soviet Study of War’ series examines the lessons Soviet military theorists and commanders learned from the study of their own military experience. These are translations of Soviet documents. …

First Published in 1965. This short monograph is the first result of the author”s decision in 1959 to study the Chinese economy. This came about as they were appointed to join a group of economists …

This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such …

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour t …

Sexual crime, past and present, is rarely far from the headlines. How these crimes are punished, policed and understood has changed considerably over the last century. From hormone injections to cogn …

Amalia is a heroin, a mother and a wife: she retraces the events of her family through three generations. She welcomes their inheritance in a hard struggle to survive between a Country”s rural age a …

Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following t …

Drawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts – particularly the unicorn, the mermaid, and the dragon – in a …

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity”s triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by …

This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national p …