Browsing Books by Books Like The Historian

Tamerlane (2006)
Offers a powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the Mongol successor to Ge...

The Accidental Empire (2006)
Discusses the creation of Jewish settlements in territories seized following the 1967 Six-Day War, t...

Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005 (2006)
Learn to master all the skills using ASP.NET's powerful features and to handle databases like a pro....

Graceling (2008)
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa stru...

The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
A traveler from Italy arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar, lord of the Mughal empire, and entertai...

Vanished (2009)
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a...

The Martian (2014)
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him be...

Doomsday Book (1993)
Journeying back in time to the year 1320, twenty-first century Oxford woman Kivrin arrives during th...

The Kite Runner (2003)
Traces the unlikely friendship of Amir, a wealthy Afghanistani youth, and a servant's son, in a tale...

The Cuckoo's Calling (2014)
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she...

1491 (2006)
Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, rev...

Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999)
Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels ...

Dark Places (2009)
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, 7-year-old Libby Day testifies against her br...

Factory Girls (2008)
Chronicles the everyday world of the millions of female Chinese migrant workers who have left their ...

Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999)
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Ver...

The Evolution of God (2009)
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright un...