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A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends by Lewis Spence
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal "Myths and Legends of the North American Indians", Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout the book on the history of Native Americans, their language and lifestyle, culture ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Secret Religions : A Complete Guide to Hermetic, Pagan and Esoteric Beliefs by David V. Barrett
Category: Occult | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the western world where witchcraft or Wicca, Druidry, and Urban Shamanism are thriving. Alongside this there has been an upsurge in New Age ideas of an even wider va ...Show more
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare (without the boring bits) by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Reference | Series: Brief Histories
This is an accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - "Enigma". Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has previously avoided the Bard, ...Show more
A Brief Guide to the Great Equations by Robert Crease
Category: Science | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of "Physics World", including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation. Each is an equation that captures with beautiful simplicity what can only be describe ...Show more
A Brief Guide to the Sound of Music: 50 Years of the Legendary Musical and the Family That Inspired it by Paul Simpson
Category: Film | Series: Brief Histories
Everyone has heard the songs from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The stage show was a roaring success in New York and London, and the much-loved feature film, directed by Hollywood veteran Robert Wise, continues to be a staple of television schedules 50 years after its release in 1965. I ...Show more
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution by Roy Bainton
Category: Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
'Lenin? Yes, he was a good man -- he ran the whole country -- and he did it on a worker's wages.' The view of a Red Army veteran is in contrast to that of a young Russian entrepreneur: 'Lenin and Trotsky were totally evil -- they turned my country into a nightmare.' The Revolution of 1917 remains contro ...Show more
A Brief History of America by Jeremy Black
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to economic history; the political shaping of America; and America in the world, from being a colony to post-Cold War Ame ...Show more
A Brief History of Angels and Demons by Sarah Bartlett
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Brief Histories
Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not only traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renaissance, but also reveals their most intimate secr ...Show more
A Brief History of Biographies: From Plutarch to Celebs by Andrew Brown
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Brief Histories
A Brief History of Biographies considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes to subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power To ? by Jeremy Black
Category: Popular History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated fourth and final volume in the concise Brief History o ...Show more
A Brief History of Britain: v. 3: Making of the Nation: 1660-1851 by William Gibson
Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
How Great Britain was born - from the restoration to the Great Exhibition. In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world - the centre of burgeonin ...Show more
A Brief History of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the Brit ...Show more