China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years. China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the world's population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons and arming terrorists...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Edward Burman
ISBN:9780750946834
The book asks why it is that China despite its size and
once advanced culture and technology did not become a
world power centuries ago? Burman traces the answer
through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made
foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Edward Burman
ISBN:9780750937221
The Inquisition inspired fear for centuries. Instituted to suppress heresy, it developed into a powerful body, wreaking the most terrible tortures and punishments on those who fell foul of it. The Cathars in southern France...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Edward Burman
ISBN:9780892812219
For nearly 200 years, until their suppression in 1312 on charges of heresy and magical practices, the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon--better known as the Templars--were the most formidable and feared fighting machine in Christendom. Besides their military prowess they also possessed immense wealth and political power...more details Format:Paperback Pages:212