Book Review: Isabella, the Warrior Queen
/Biographer Kirstin Downey frees Queen Isabella from the shadow of her husband Ferdinand and sets her center-stage in her own incredible life
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/In colonial America, a strange, otherworldly English preacher set off a tidal wave of fundamentalist revivalism that shaped an entire generation.
Read MoreBook Review: The Collapse
/Twenty-five years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and the structure of European politics changed literally overnight. A fantastic new book dissects a turning point in modern history
Read MoreBook Review: Desert God
/Wilbur Smith continues the adventures of his super-eunuch Taita in his latest novel set in ancient Egypt
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Wars of Justinian
/Everybody knows Procopius as the author of the scandalous "Secret History" - but he wrote a long and fascinating work of straightforward history as well, and that work finally gets a great one-volume English edition.
Read MoreBook Review: The Woman Who Would Be King
/3000 years ago, a capable, enigmatic woman named Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for over twenty years; a spirited new biography tells her story
Read MoreBook Review: The Georgetown Set
/In postwar Washington, a group of smart, well-placed and high-powered friends helped to set national policy over after-dinner conversation - a sparkling new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: New York Mid-Century, 1945-1965
/A new and raucous (and sometimes destructive) dawn of art, architecture, and nightlife broke over New York City in the decades after the Second World War; a gorgeous new book traces the major upheavals
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Annotated Wuthering Heights
/New from the Belknap Press: a lavish new annotated edition of "Wuthering Heights"
Read MoreBook Review: Autumn, All the Cats Return
/Lieutenant Sebag returns in the second installment of Philippe Georget's top-notch murder-thriller series set in southern France
Read MoreBook Review: Political Order and Political Decay
/The author of "The End of History and the Last Man" completes his massive study of the life-cycles of human governmental systems
Read MoreBook Review: The Ugly Renaissance
/The age of Michelangelo and Leonardo was also the age of plague and pestilence; a new book finds this fact fascinating
Read MoreBook Review: 1381- The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
/A fascinating new book uncovers new depths and complexities in the much-studied events of Wat Tyler's Rebellion
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Read MoreBook Review: The Wars of the Roses
/The protracted dynastic struggle of York and Lancaster is the dramatic subject of the new book by historian Dan Jones
Read MoreBook Review: The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi
/An attractive new book collects the vibrant dinosaur artwork of Julius Csotonyi
Read MoreBook Review: Forging Capitalism
/A lean and very readable history of the swindling, extrapolating, gambling, and cheating in Victorian England that gave rise to the financial world we have today.
Read MoreBook Review: The Unsubstantial Air
/Even before America entered the First World War, daring young Americans were taking to the skies over France, and during the war some of their exploits became legendary; a gripping new history tells the story of America's first air war.
Read MoreBook Review: The Walls of Delhi
/The worlds of India comes alive in the recently-translated fiction of one of the great Hindi writers of our time
Read MoreComics: Batman 75th Anniversary Commemorative Collection
/It's been 75 years since Batman first darkened the nightmares of comic-book villains in Gotham City and around the world; a deluxe new anthology presents three of the Caped Crusader's most popular graphic novels
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