In this course, University College London professor Geoffrey Hosking discusses the four themes that make European history different from other parts of the world: the nation-state, citizenship, the scientific method, and broadly based...
Europe
- Author:Hosking, Geoffrey A.Summary:
- Author:Arendt, HannahSummary:
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann is a classic examination of evil from one of the great philosophers of the twentieth century.
- Author:Follett, Ken.Summary:
Edge of Eternity, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
The first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the...
- Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude...
- Author:Willis, ConnieSummary:
One of the most respected and awarded of all contemporary science fiction writers, Connie Willis repeatedly amazes her many admiring fans with her ability to create vivid characters in unusual situations. With Doomsday Book, she takes...
- Author:Neil, DanialSummary:
It is 1917, and a rather ruthless world of war and men. Women find themselves overwhelmed by the despotic nature of men. And in Edinburgh, it is no different. The war rages in Europe and the poverty at home fouls the cobbled streets....
- Author:Owens, ZahraSummary:
Jack Christensen tiene todo lo que podía desear. Es uno de los más destacados diplomáticos de los Estados Unidos, y el hombre más joven que jamás había sido postulado como embajador. Tiene una carrera que acaba de ponerse políticamente...
- Author:Wilson, Robert CharlesSummary:
In 1912 world history is changed by the Miracle. The old world of Europe is replaced by a land known as Darwinia, a strange jungle full of antediluvian monsters. Some people seize the opportunity to carve out a new empire and America is...
- Author:Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda YimboSummary:
In an incisive view of the relationship between Africa and the West, the author, who holds diplomas from the London School of Economics and the London School of Journalism, suggests that the aid machinery hurts Africa more than it...
- Author:Mazower, MarkSummary:
- Author:Li, Winnie M.Summary:
Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a fifteen-year-old Irish teenager living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up...
- Author:Winder, SimonSummary:
From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia .
- Author:Johansen, MichaelSummary:
In the spring of 1990, Mathias Finne tu s himself in at a police station in Moscow to confess to a murder he apparently committed in the last days of the Second World War in Bo holm, Denmark. In an interview with a police inspector,...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel'a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan'from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author...
- Author:Quinn, KatieSummary:
Katie Quinn spent months as an apprentice with some of Europe's most acclaimed experts to study the art and science of fermentation. Part artisanal survey, part travelogue, and part cookbook, this book provides a fascinating look...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the...
- Author:Diome, FatouSummary:
- Author:Gordimer, NadineSummary:
As a depiction of South Africa, this novel is more revealing than a thousand news dispatches as it tells the story of a young woman cast in the role of a young revolutionary, trying to uphold a heritage handed on by martyred parents...
- Author:Jordan, Jonathan W.Summary:
This book recounts the battle for Europe through the eyes of three legendary generals: Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Drawn from the candid accounts of its main characters and those around them, this eye-opening narrative is sure to...