Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

History
Leningrad
Anna Reid
HB $49.99
On 8 September 1941, 11
weeks after Hitler
launched his brutal attack
on the Soviet Union,
Leningrad was
surrounded. The siege
would not be lifted for
two and a half years and
during the 872 days of
blockade as many as two
million Soviet lives would be lost. In this book,
Anna Reid answers many of the previously
unanswered questions about the siege.
The Great Builders
Kenneth Powell (Ed)
HB $49.95
The Great Builders
surveys the careers of
forty great architects
whose engineering
skills were crucial to
their success. Sixteen
nationalities and seven
centuries of
architectural innovation
make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth.
It includes masterpieces from all over the world
and covers 700 years of architectural history.
A Short History
Of Christianity
Geoffrey Blainey
HB $45.00
Blainey takes us into the
world of the mainstream
worshippers – the
housewives, the
stonemasons – and traces
the rise of the critics of
Christ and his followers.
Eminently readable and
written with Blainey’s
characteristic curiosity and story-telling skill, this
book places Christianity at the centre of world
history. Blainey points out that its history is a
much-repeated story of ups and downs.
The Gentry: Stories
Of The English
Adam Nicholson
HB $55.00
For generations England
was a country dominated
by its middling families,
rooted on their land, with
a healthy interest in
turning a profit from their
property and a deep
distrust of the centralised
state. This book is a
wonderful sweep of English history presenting a
convincing argument on what has created the
distinctive English character all with the sheer
readability of an epic novel.
The Borgias
Mary Hollingsworth
HB $49.99
The Borgia family of
Renaissance Italy has
become a byword for
pride, lust, cruelty,
avarice, splendour and
venomous intrigue. Of
Spanish origin, the
Borgias came to
prominence in the Italy
of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual
values of the medieval church were being swept
aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance.
Here is a lavishly illustrated chronicle of one of
history’s most notorious ruling dynasties.
Vanished Kingdoms
Norman Davies
HB $59.95
We habitually think of the
European past as the
history of countries which
exist, but often this actually
obstructs our view of the
past. Europe’s history is
littered with kingdoms,
duchies, empires and
republics which have now
disappeared but which
were once fixtures on the map of their age. This
book shows the reader how to peer through the
cracks of mainstream history writing and listen to
the echoes of lost realms across the centuries.