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“halil inalcik”

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  • The Ottoman Empire

    1300-1600

    by Halil Inalcik ...
    Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • History of the Ottoman Empire

    by William Deans ...
    Deans treatise, History of the Otttoman Empire, chronicles 600 years of the empire from 1250 to 1850, including the Siege of Constantinople, the Battle of Lepanto, the Siege of Vienna, the war with Russia, and Greeces independence. A table of contents is included for easy navigation. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

    A Novel

    by Nadia Hashimi ...
    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

    Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England

    Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds

    by Terry Deary ...
    Series Book 3 - Dangerous Days
    The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth lined her coffers while her subjects lived in squalor with hunger, violence and misery as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Teutonic Knights

    by William Urban ...
    The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years.This major new book ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Treason

    The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty

    by Robert Hutchinson ...
    King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAILThe Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They w... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ...
    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500–1800

    by William H. McNeill ...
    In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Executing Well

    Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads ... Read more

    $22.99 USD