Every Dorling Kindersley Guide has been a great and interesting book... and delightful to have and use, even if you are not traveling to that location, but are only interested in learning more!
Great Britain: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 2 January 2010
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This work examines the history of the nation that once built an "empire on which the sun never set". It is a reference guide for any student or anglophile interested in the modern history of Great Britain, and contains an A-Z historical dictionary of people, events, and issues.
Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the WestLast Landscapes explores death and the landscape of the cemetery. The picturesque village churchyard; the tightly packed "historic cities of the dead" such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague; the war cemeteries of Northern France; the modernism of the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery; the graveyards of North America -- in discussing the history and culture of these architectural expressions of memory and loss, Ken Worpole also -locates the national, religious and romantic attitudes they express.
A comprehensive introductory guide to the history of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. An invaluable source for all readers and students. Contains separate chapter studies of Old English literature, medieval literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorian period, Modernism, and post-war writing. Examines the impact on British literature of contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments. Includes Scottish, Irish, and Welsh writing in English.
Incomparable villains and heroes surge through the history of medieval Russia. Ivan IV may have been dubbed the Terrible, but when he died, the Rurik dynasty that had ruled Russia for centuries came to an end. And what followed was far worse. This volume is the history of Russia's struggle through a period of weak rulers, false pretendants to the throne, foreign invasions and civil strife. Even the weather was disastrous, and famine was inevitable. War, butchery and betrayals ensued until the Romanov Dynasty took control.
