Penguin
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
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Orientalism has become a problematic scholarly discipline since Edward Said published his Orientalism in 1978. According to Irwin, Said accused Orientalists of imperialism, colonialism ...Read Review
A Short History of Slavery
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Published to coincide with and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the English Atlantic slave trade in 1807, this is the kind ...Read Review
Count Belisarius
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Originally published in 1936, Count Belisarius has not basked in the same limelight as Robert Graves’s two earlier masterpieces set in the early ...Read Review
Black Arrow
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Imperial official Sugawara Akitada is recently assigned as deputy governor of Eichigo (now Niigata province) on the rough, snow-bound northern frontier of Heian ...Read Review
Plague Sorcerer
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14th century. Set in the time of the Black Death, the story is about Brind and Aurelie, the two main characters, who are ...Read Review
One Step At A Time
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Amy Carter at 14 lived in rented rooms in Wapping, her mother suffering from TB and her father a merchant seaman often away at ...Read Review
The Mirror of the Gods : Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art
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This is a scholarly study but plainly written with a minimum of technical artistic terms, which makes it accessible to the lay ...Read Review
Marriage, a History : How Love Conquered Marriage
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This is a scholarly book with pizzazz. The author reports on marriage practices and laws from ancient Babylon to the present. The ...Read Review
Honor Killing : Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case
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Don’t let the racy title fool you; this is not a sensational rehash of the 1930s Hawaiian rape trial. It is ...Read Review
Brind and the Dogs of War
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Brind is no ordinary boy; he was raised with dogs and has a strong bond with the alpha-male mastiff, Glaive. Their master, Sir ...Read Review
