Genre search:History

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
science, biology, culture, evolution, non-fiction, anthropology
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Status
Available
Call number
303.4

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
909

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History [Waterstones Exclusive]

by Professor Peter Frankopan
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
@signed, @stencilled, non-fiction, reference, history, geography, environment
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
304.2

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2004
Tags
history, science, non-fiction, natural history, popular history, essays
Collection
Donated
Status
Available
Call number
500

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, reference, history, humour, household, essays
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
643.1

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

by Ian Mortimer
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, history, mediaeval, folio society
Collections
Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Series
Time Traveller's Guide (1)
Status
Available
Call number
942.03

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt
Ebook, 2011
Tags
non-fiction, renaissance, history, philosophy, mediaeval
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
940.21

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
non-fiction, biography, @attic03, dictionary, english language, linguistics, mental illness, books on books, literary mystery
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
423.092

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2009
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history, popular science
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
509.4109033

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth [Waterstones Exclusive]

by Natalie Haynes
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
@signed, @undercovers, fiction, myths & legends, greek mythology
Collection
Myths, Legends & Folklore
Status
Available
Call number
292.2114

The Twelve Ceasars [De vita Caesarum]

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Hardcover, 1964
Tags
history, folio society, ancient history, roman history, biography
Collections
General Fiction, Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Series
The Twelve Caesars (1-12)
Status
Available
Call number
937.070922

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas L. Friedman
Hardcover, ?
Tags
@attic12, history, current affairs
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
330.90511

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Every

by Arthur Herman
Paperback, 2002
Tags
history, scottish history, humour, general knowledge
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
941.1

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

by Cat Bohannon
Ebook, 2023
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history, evolution, popular science
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
613.0424

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

by Hana Videen
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
non-fiction, history, linguistics, words
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
429.81

The Federalist of The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton
Book, 1979
Tags
easton press, american history, political science, essays
Collections
Non-fiction & Reference, Easton Press books
Status
Available
Call number
342.73029

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick
Ebook, 2011
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history, science, information technology, mathematics, popular science, communication
Collections
Digital Library, Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
020.9

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh
Paperback, 2000
Tags
science, cryptography, mathematics
Collection
Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
652.809

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ebook, 2015
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, biography, memoir, african american, racism
Collections
Digital Library, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Becoming

by Michelle Obama
Ebook, 2018
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, biography, memoir, american literature, @bookclub
Collections
Digital Library, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
973.932092

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker
Ebook, 2011
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
303.609

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu
Paperback, 1971
Tags
philosophy, war, business, chinese literature, taoism, non-fiction, history
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
355

The Art of War [Chiltern Classics]

by Sun Tzu
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
non-fiction, classics, war, strategy, military history, china, philosophy, illustrated, chiltern classics
Collection
Classic Novels
Status
Available
Call number
355.02

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

by Hana Videen
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, history, linguistics, words, animals
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
429.81

The Anthropocene Reviewed

by John Green
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
@signed, non-fiction, essays
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
306

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society

by Bill Bryson Editor
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
@ctm, @cbr, non-fiction, science, history, essays
Collection
Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
506.041

The Princes in the Tower

by Alison Weir
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
folio society, history, mediaeval history
Collections
Children's Lit & Picture Books, Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
942.044092

The King's Speech

by Mark Logue
Paperback, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, biography, royalty, history, @ebook
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
941.0840922

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, inspirational, biography, memoir
Collections
Digital Library, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
973.04960730092

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

by Maia Lee-Chin
Hardcover, 2024
Tags
@ordered, @preorder, non-fiction, latin, words
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available

History of Western philosophy, and its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day

by Bertrand Russell
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
folio society, history, philosophy, non-fiction, reference
Collections
Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Series
A History of Western Philosophy (Russell) (1-2)
Status
Available
Call number
109

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
@cbr-chk, @cbr, english language, words, linguistics, essays, humour, wordplay, etymology
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
420.9

Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
easton press, science, philosophy, history
Collections
Science Textbooks, Easton Press books
Status
Available
Call number
501

Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
drama, reference, illustrated, biography, history, british history, essays
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
822.33

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X
Ebook, 2001
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, biography, memoir
Collections
Digital Library, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
323

Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More

by Robert Lacey
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
non-fiction, @attic03, history, british history
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Series
Great Tales from English History (1)
Status
Available
Call number
942.01

Civilisation, A Personal View

by Kenneth Clark
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
folio society, history
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
901.9

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

by Simon Garfield
Paperback, 2011
Tags
calligraphy, non-fiction, history, reference
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
686.224

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

by Bruce Pascoe
Ebook, 2018
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history, aboriginal, agriculture, @bookclub
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
338.7630994

The Oxford history of the classical world

by John Boardman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
@bsg, @cbr, history, classical history, ancient rome, ancient greece
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Series
Oxford Histories
Status
Available
Call number
938

The Black Death

by Philip Ziegler
Hardcover, 1969
Tags
folio society, history, medieval history, british history, plague, disasers
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
940.192

The Vikings

by Gwyn Jones
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
folio society, history, european history, scandinavia, vikings, norse history
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
948

The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski
Paperback, 2000
Tags
@wishlist, books on books, reference, storage, book collecting, libraries
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
028

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

by Simon Singh
Book, 2000
Tags
easton press, science, mathematics, cryptography
Collections
Popular Science, Easton Press books
Status
Available
Call number
512.74

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Ebook, 2011
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, science, popular science, history, chemistry
Collections
Digital Library, Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
546.8

A Short History Of Myth (Canongate Myths, #1)

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
@signed, non-fiction, myths and legends, history, canongate myths
Collection
Myths, Legends & Folklore
Status
Available
Call number
201.309

The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature

by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
non-fiction, reference, books on books
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
809.002

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, biography, computing
Collections
Digital Library, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
621.39092

Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment

by Max Adams
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
non-fiction, biography, history
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
920.72

The Ascent Of Man

by Jacob Bronowski
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, anthropology, history, science, philosophy, evolution, folio society
Collections
Popular Science, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
501
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