J. A. Giles 
Roger of Wendover’s Flowers of History [PDF ebook] 
Comprising the History of England; From the Descent of the Saxons to A. D. 1235

Pharmacy has become an integral part of our lives. Nearly half of all 300 million Americans take at least one prescription drug daily, accounting for $250 billion per year in sales in the US alone. A …

The LNER Class A3 Pacific locomotive No. 4472 ”Flying Scotsman” is one of the world”s most iconic steam engines. It was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works to …

This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain. The Cid occupies a unique position among national heroes. Others …

Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines–history and sociology, socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature–to create a volume that …

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent …

The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends i …

The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the army …

T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as ‘the perfect leader’, a man who ‘worked by influence rather than by loud direction. … He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silen …

Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA”s involvement in one …