The Civil War: A Narrative is a powerfully dramatic, highly literate three-volume account of the war that preserved the unity of the United States of America. It took Shelby Foote over 16 years and 2,800 pages to complete his masterpiece. The Civil War: A Narrative is a very long journey, but one also very well worth taking.
'We have needed a one-volume history of Scotland for a long time, but it was worth waiting for Mrs Mitcheson's. Hers is a brilliant feat of compression, and into her 488 pages she has crammed more than anyone would have though possible, yet without any sense of strain. Nor does a single one of these pages, form the brilliant demographic description of Scotland with which she begins, to the stimulating discussion of Scottish nationalism with which she ends, give the impression of being taken from stock; on every subject and through every century she is fresh incisive, informative and enlightening. She has produced that rare thing, an original textbook...
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Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
This well-illustrated volume is just the thing to have on hand while working your way through the pages of Xenophon, Herodotus, and Thucydides. Robert Morkot traces the growth of Greece from a series of often conflicting city-states, each with its own colonial outposts as far from home as Spain and Tunisia, to loosely knit alliances that waged huge conflicts against the Persian empire--and, as in the case of the Peloponnesian War, against each other. The pages devoted to Alexander the Great, which show how t
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Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book
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Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book
In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art.
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