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  • Hitler's People

    The Faces of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    **Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail“A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal“Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context . . . Just the kind of probing, nuanced and unsparing study to help us think things through.” —The New York TimesThrough a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • They Thought They Were Free

    The Germans, 1933–45

    by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans ...
    National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Third Reich at War

    1939-1945

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 3 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and Hitler's People“This is history in the grand style, the kind of large-scale narrative that few historians dare to write these days. It is difficult to imagine how it could be improved upon, let alone surpassed.” —The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Optimizing Cloud Native Java

    Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance

    by Benjamin J. Evans, James Gough ...
    Performance tuning is an experimental science, but that doesn't mean engineers should resort to guesswork and folklore to get the job done. Yet that's often the case. With this practical book, intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex platforms will learn how to tune Java cloud applications for performance using a quantitative, verifiable, and repeatable approach.In response ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Pursuit of Power

    Europe 1815-1914

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series series The Penguin History of Europe
    **An Economist Best Book of the Year“Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Java in a Nutshell

    A Desktop Quick Reference

    by Benjamin J Evans, Jason Clark, David Flanagan ...
    This updated edition of the Nutshell guide not only helps experienced Java programmers get the most out of versions through Java 17, it also serves as a learning path for new developers. Chock-full of examples that demonstrate how to take complete advantage of modern Java APIs and development best practices, this thoroughly revised book includes new material on recent enhancements to the Java ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Beyond the Cogs: A Steampunk Anthology

    by Elle Beaumont, Nicholas J. Evans, C. Vonzale Lewis ...
    When a world is reimagined...This anthology contains three impeccable steampunk stories. Ranging from the gritty tale of discovering a creature who steals the souls of others, to dabbling in the taboo art of imbuing a human soul into an automaton, and even a man venturing back home only to discover he's been demonized.The Soulless Ones by C. Vonzale LewisThe Rogue of Vangard by Nicholas J. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dropping the Mask

    by Kieran J. Evans ...
    Dropping the Mask includes a variety of short stories across the sci-fi and fantasy genres. Accompanying these are a collection of poems and verse covering six years of love, loss, grief, and anger at a mismanaged lifestyle of broken promises. Both sections are an insight in to the wandering mind of a twenty-something as they traverse the maze of reality and inadvertently get utterly, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lying About Hitler

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Death in Hamburg

    Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of BooksWhy were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD