Recent Arrivals from Worldbridge Books

Westview Press, 1993-09-07. Paperback. Very good. 6.25x0.75x9.25. As we enter a truly global epoch we need a historical awareness to match the times. This book offers a new scholarly perspective, a new historical consciousness, and a new sub-field of history—global history—that will have a major impact on the way we write history and make policy in the future.… Read more about this item

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991-01-01. Paperback. Very good. 1.57x0.59x0.31. Since its first publication over thirty years ago, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present has offered a concise and authoritative historical narrative of the events that shaped twentieth-century Europe. The 4th Edition retains these strengths while embracing recent developments and current research. The… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 2003-08-28. Paperback. Very good. 6.0x0.5x9.0. In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In his major new book Frank Fischer brings together these various new approaches for the first time and… Read more about this item

Verso, 1998-05-01. Paperback. Very good. 6.0x0.75x9.25. What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality—the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation—has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines… Read more about this item

Penguin Publishing Group, 2000-10-01. Paperback. Very good. 5.5x1.3x8.5. Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing struggle to maintain its independence and safeguard its cultural identity while being… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1999-07-29. Paperback. Very good-. 9.97x0.55x7.0. Approaches to Peace provides a unique and interdisciplinary sampling of classic articles and short literary selections focusing on the diverse aspects of peace and conflict studies. Readings cover the causes of war and proposed means of preventing it, so called negative peace, and also reflect upon the universal concern for… Read more about this item

Vintage, 1984-04-12. Paperback. Very good. 5.12x0.98x7.98. The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others -- separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers,… Read more about this item

Basic Books, 2000-03-03. Paperback. Very good. 5.25x1.6x8.0. From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I. The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming… Read more about this item

W. W. Norton & Company, 1976-10-17. Paperback. Very good. 5.4x0.8x8.2. The Revolutions of 1848 swept away some of the foremost champions of international conservatism: new statesmen with new aims replaced them and dominated Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century.The chief sponsor of national revolutions at the beginning of the period was Napoleon III, who hoped… Read more about this item

IDG Books, 2001-01-01. Paperback. Very good. 7.25x1.0x9.0. A comprehensive, easy-to-follow introduction to world history ranges from ancient times to the present day, discussing key developments on every continent, the events and discoveries that changed the course of history, the history of warfare and its impact, and key dates, places, documents, and people. Original.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia. The quest for the real Dilmun began when the author revisited Bahrain in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds scattered across the country. A seasons digging established the… Read more about this item

Bounty Books, 2000-05-15. Very good.

Metro Books, 2011-01-01. Very good. USE BOOK. THE BOOK HAS MINOR SHELF AND CORNER WEAR ON DUST JACKET, NO WRITING INSIDE THE BOOK!!!! FAST SHIPPING!!!

For Dummies, 2003-01-01. Paperback. Very good. 7.75x1.25x9.5. An accessible guide to the world's largest Christian denomination summarizes the basic beliefs, practices, rituals, teachings, and traditions of Catholicism. Original.

Chartwell Books, 2009-11-03. Hardcover. Very good. 6.75x1.0x9.5. Despite being enmeshed in a culture steeped in technology and science, the magic and mysteries of the ancient world still haunt our imagination. This book brings together a fascinating selection of these ancient enigmas.

Pearson Education ESL, 2009-05-29. Paperback. Very good. 8.2x0.6x10.7. Future's research-based, comprehensive curriculum empowers learners with the academic, workplace, and media literacy skills they need to get ahead.. * Future prepares students with 21st century skills, helping them transition to further education or career training.. * Student book with Interactive Practice Plus CD-ROM enables learners to persist by providing… Read more about this item

De Agostini, 1996-01-01. Hardcover. Very good. 1.25x8.75x11.5. Here is a unique tour of literature through the ages and across the continents, focusing on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and time, and capturing towns, cities, and regions in their literary heyday. More than 80 essays explore places including Shakespeare's Stratford, Jane Austen's Bath,… Read more about this item

Bantam, 1996-10-01. Hardcover. Very good. 7.8x0.8x10.2. In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing.  It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.  The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known… Read more about this item

Workman Publishing Company, 2016-08-09. Paperback. Very good. 5.0x1.0x8.0. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible conceitborrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. Its the revolutionary study guide for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. There are units on Colonial America; the Revolutionary War and the founding of a… Read more about this item

Alpha, 1999-10-04. Paperback. Very good. 7.36x0.9x9.08. A Halloween favorite spooks up a new and expanded edition. A unique guide to the world of the paranormal, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings is a perennial favorite. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new information on ghost hunting and observing, this new edition includes new tips on gathering… Read more about this item