Category: History

By David Cordingly

ISBN-10: 1400068150

ISBN-13: 9781400068159

From David Cordingly, one of many world’s greatest specialists on pirate historical past, and writer of the perennial favourite Under the Black Flag, comes the exciting tale of the guy who fought the genuine pirates of the Caribbean. Sea captain, privateer, and colonial governor, Woodes Rogers was once one of many early eighteenth century’s boldest and so much colourful characters. Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean is the definitive account of his really good life.

At a time while Europe’s maritime countries fought over islands and territories, and pirates and different scoundrels have been flourishing, Rogers sailed into the guts of the motion. In 1708, in the course of Britain’s battle with Spain, Rogers was once employed to guide a undertaking opposed to Spanish objectives within the Pacific. A fearless adventurer who misplaced his fortune as usually as his mood, he battled scurvy and hurricanes and mutinies—and alongside the way in which captured a treasure galleon and rescued the shipwrecked Alexander Selkirk, whose four-year ordeal on a distant Pacific island encouraged Daniel Defoe to jot down Robinson Crusoe.

When the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 ended in an explosion of piracy within the Caribbean, King George I appointed Rogers governor of the Bahamas. There he came across himself in command of a string of islands being plundered through raucous felons, from the infamous “Blackbeard,” who saved lit fits below his hat to offer himself a hellish solid, to Charles Vane, a very brutal pirate captain, to Anne Bonny and Mary learn, infrequent girl pirates who escaped the hangman’s noose in simple terms by means of revealing their pregnancies.

With wealthy and bright information and many motion, David Cordingly chronicles a rollicking event that's as interesting and gripping as any seafaring legend.

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By Walter J. Friedlander

ISBN-10: 0313280231

ISBN-13: 9780313280238

The Caduceus, entwined snakes set upon a rod, was once the traditional image of Hermes, the Greek god of retailers. this day, it's a universal and renowned image of the clinical and allied professions. This publication strains using the caduceus image and solutions the query of ways it got here to be the emblem of medication.

By Joshua Levine

ISBN-10: 0091926289

ISBN-13: 9780091926281

It truly is 1916, the Somme. With over 1000000 casualties, it used to be the main brutal conflict of the 1st global conflict. it's a conflict that even now, over ninety years later, continues to be seared into ancient awareness, conjuring up photos of muddy trenches and younger lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July 1st 1916—on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, together with 19,240 dead—is the bloodiest day within the heritage of the British military thus far. at the German aspect, an officer famously defined it as “the muddy grave of the German box army.” by means of the top of the conflict, the British had realized many classes in sleek conflict whereas the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses, eventually laying the principles for the Allies' ultimate victory at the Western entrance. Drawing on a wealth of fabric from the substantial Imperial battle Museum Sound Archive, Forgotten Voices of the Somme offers an intimate, poignant, occasionally even bleakly humorous perception into lifestyles at the entrance line: from the daily fight of notable situations to the white warmth of conflict and the consistent possibility of harm or demise. that includes contributions from infantrymen of either side and of differing backgrounds, ranks and roles,, this is often the definitive oral heritage of this particular and poor conflict.

ISBN-10: 052166019X

ISBN-13: 9780521660198

The Cambridge better half to Proust offers a vast account of the main beneficial properties of Marcel Proust's nice paintings A los angeles recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The particularly commissioned essays, by way of said specialists on Proust, tackle a variety of concerns in relation to his paintings. Progressing from historical past and biographical fabric, the chapters examine such crucial components because the composition of the unconventional, its social measurement, the language within which it really is couched, its highbrow parameters and its humor.

By Gail Herman, Andrew Thomson

ISBN-10: 0399539697

ISBN-13: 9780399539695

Whilst Derek Jeter was once 8 years previous, he introduced that he was once going to play baseball for the recent York Yankees. Jeter earned the eye of significant league scouts in highschool and was once drafted to the hot York Yankees in 1992. Named Rookie of the yr, he helped the Yankees win the area sequence 5 instances, and have become staff captain in 2003. along with his beauty, easygoing character, and humorousness, Derek has constantly been a fan favourite. Retiring from baseball in 2014, Derek Jeter leaves at the back of a legacy.

By Matthew Innes, Yitzhak Hen

ISBN-10: 0521630010

ISBN-13: 9780521630016

This quantity investigates the ways that humans within the early heart a while used the earlier: to valid the current, to appreciate present occasions, and as a resource of id. every one essay examines the mechanisms wherein rules in regards to the previous have been subtly (and occasionally now not so subtly) reshaped for current reasons.

By Jonny Zucker, Ivor Baddiel

Why do humans make predictions? What used to be the 1st prediction? And why will we supply them any credence whatsoever?

The first end-of-the-world prediction used to be recorded one moment after the large Bang, and because then it has turn into the father of all predictions with, to this point, nobody getting it correct. humans were round for approximately 200,000 years, with little or no evolutionary distinction, and but we nonetheless haven't constructed X-ray eyes or the power to fly. This e-book examines the predictions which were made because the sunrise of time on various topics, from the tip of the area and the human physique to international warming, robots within the office, teleportation, and house exploration. With a witty and clean tone, the authors study how those predictions took place and why, and cost them for retrospective accuracy.

By Nicholas J. C. Pistor

ISBN-10: 1493004166

ISBN-13: 9781493004164

A whole family massacred. A kin feud. A sheriff chanced on lifeless. Neighbor grew to become opposed to neighbor. studies of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes. In 1874, the Saxtown bloodbath rocked a state reeling from monetary melancholy and shattered a small German immigrant farming group in Illinois. The homicide of the Stelzriede kin led investigators via forests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and the marks of an ax dragged clear of the scene. Nicholas J. C. Pistor's The Ax Murders of Saxtown is a gripping story of suspense and suspicion that exposes fresh information regarding the century-old crime and showcases the issues of the nineteenth-century justice method.

By J. H. Elliott

ISBN-10: 0141007036

ISBN-13: 9780141007038

Since its first e-book, J. H. Elliott's vintage chronicle has develop into tested because the so much finished, balanced, and obtainable account of the dramatic upward push and fall of imperial Spain.  Now with a brand new preface by means of the writer, this very good examine unveils how a barren, impoverished, and remoted state turned the best strength on earth—and simply as speedy fell into decline.

At its maximum Spain used to be a grasp of Europe: its govt was once revered, its armies have been feared, and its conquistadores carved out an unlimited empire. but this wonderful energy was once swiftly to lose its impetus and inventive dynamism. How did this ensue in this type of brief house of time? Taking in rebellions, spiritual clash and fiscal catastrophe, Elliott's masterly social and financial research reviews many of the elements that triggered the tip of an empire.

By Peter Doyle

ISBN-10: 069816671X

ISBN-13: 9780698166714

A dynamic social historical past commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of global conflict I

General readers and background buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A heritage of the area in a hundred items. In that culture, this good-looking commemorative quantity provides a different viewpoint on essentially the most pivotal and risky occasions of recent history.

In international conflict I in a hundred gadgets, army historian Peter Doyle stocks a desirable number of goods, from patriotic badges worn through British electorate to box apparatus built by means of the U.S.. fantastically photographed, every one merchandise is followed by means of the original tale it tells in regards to the conflict, its method, its recommendations, and the folks who fought it.