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  • Castles, A Very Peculiar History

    by Jacqueline Morley ...
    Series Book 29 - A Very Peculiar History
    Whether you're planning your first seige, building a fortress or just looking for a way to escape the peasants below, 'Castles: A Very Peculiar History' is full of tips, tricks and horror stories from the castle-building trade. We can't all match up to the combined beauty and danger of the Tower of London, but in this title you'll learn who developed the world's first flat-pack castle, the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History

    by Jacqueline Morley ...
    Series Book 13 - A Very Peculiar History
    William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History' uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. Through dispelling common myths (Could his father really not read or write? What really happened during 'the Lost Years'? Why did he retire from writing while only in his early 40s?) and revealing fascinating trivia, this book attempts to answer many of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century

    by I.F.C. Hecker ...
    The black death is thought to have started in China, and travelled along the Silk Road to reach Crimea by 1346. From there, it was probably carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 3060 percent of Europe's population,reducing the world's ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • The Military Institutions of the Romans. Illustrated

    by Flavius Vegetius Renatus ...
    Translated by John Clarke ...
    De Re Militari (commonly known as The Military Institutions of the Romans) by Flavius Vegetius Renatus is one of the most influential military treatises of antiquity, offering a systematic account of the organization, discipline, and strategy of the Roman army. Written during the late Roman Empire, the work seeks to preserve and revive the principles that once made Rome militarily dominant. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Procopius' History of the Wars, books 1 to 6

    by Procopius ...
    History of three wars from the reign of Justinian, Byzantine emperor -- The Persian War, The Vandalic War, and The Gothic War. According to Wikipedia: "Procopius of Caesarea (Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, c. AD 500 c. AD 565) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Bugs

    The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Explore the creepy, dangerous, and sometimes deadly insects and other bugs that can harm humans, animals, and plants.In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, horticulture and nature writer Amy Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

    From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world.From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Series series Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Drunken Botanist

    The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Amy Stewart ...
    The New York Times bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition—now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes.This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover.Sake began with ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The History of Rome: Mommsen's Rome, volumes 1 to 5 in a single file, in English translation

    by Theodor Mommsen ...
    Mommsen's history of the Roman Republic in five volumes. These volumes cover from the founding of Rome up to the disintegration of the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus). The author cites dates in the Roman style, AUC, from the founding of the city in 753 BC. A table at the end shows modern-day equivalents. According to Wikipedia, Mommsen is "generally regarded as the greatest classicist ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

    A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

    by Dan Riskin, Ph.D. ...
    This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army

    by G. L. Cheesman ...
    A clazzic work of military history, this was the first systematic study of the auxiliary soldiers who fought alongside the Roman legions. Using evidence ranging from their gravestones to the discharge papers that eventually granted them citizenship, Cheesman traces the evolution of the “barbarian” auxiliaries, from ad-hoc local levies to highly specialized units that became a vital component of ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD