This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam.
A precise experimenter in the realm of “chymistry,” Newton put the riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation.
This book will be of lasting importance to Native people and redefine the way future scholarship views American history.
The dramatization of Sir Thomas More's historic conflict with Henry VIII—a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that "challenges the mind, and, in the end, touches the heart" (New York ...
This is a piece of thorough and careful research, well organized, and a quite fascinating book. * Contemporary Review ...a careful and interesting record of a unique and largely successful transatlantic experiment * Daily Telegraph London . ...
In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset.
Magic is something unauthorised, an alternative perhaps, even a deliberate cultivation of dark, evil powers.
This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century ...
Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself.