Dorling Kindersley
The Medicine Book
Ancient and Medieval Medicine: Prehistory to 1600[rtoc] A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery First, do no harm: Greek medicine A body …
The Maths Book
Ancient and Classical Periods: 6000 BCE-500 CE[rtoc] Numeral take their places: Positional numbers The square as the highest power: Quadratic equations The accurate reckoning for inquiring into all things: The Rhind papyrus The sum is the same in every direction: Magic squares Number is the cause of gods and daemons: Pythagoras A real number that …
Timelines from Black History
Foreword African origins Early African kingdoms Great Zimbabwe Mansa Musa Askia the Great Nzinga Mbandi Later African kingdoms Slavery in the US Toussaint L’Ouverture Olaudah Equiano Mary Seacole Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Rebecca Lee Crumpler Lewis Howard Latimer African Americans and the US Civil War The 54th Massachusetts Sarah Breedlove Colonialism in Africa Zora Neale …
The Tank Book
Foreword David Willey, Curator, The Tank Museum The First Tanks: To 1918 Introduction Earliest Experiments Leonardo da Vinci’s “Tank” Mark IV Tanks of World War I Renault FT-17 Great Designers: Tritton and Wilson The First Tank Action Wartime Experiments Early Armoured Cars Between the Wars: 1918-1939 Introduction Interwar Experiments A New Kind of Cavalry Armoured …
The Philosophy Book
The Ancient World: 700BCE – 250CE[rtoc] Thales of Miletus Everything is made of water Laozi The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao Pythagoras Number is the ruler of forms and ideas Siddhartha Gautama Happy is he who has overcome his ego Confucius Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles Heraclitus Everything …
Eyewitness: Knight
The first knights The Normans Making a knight Armour Fashion in steel Inside the armour Arms and the man On horseback The castle The castle at war Siege warfare Arming to fight The enemy Into battle Castle life Manor lords Manor ladies The ideal of chivalry The tournament The joust Foot combat Heraldry Hunting Faith …
World War I
Introduction Richard Overy The Road to War 1878-1914 [rtoc] The Cultivation of Hatred The Years of Plenty [European Alliances, 1878-1914] [Industrial Growth of the Great Powers 1875-1913] [The Evolution of the Machine Gun] [The British Navy] [Stratified Societies] War is Declared [The German Armies of 1914] [The Lost Provinces] [The Schlieffen Plan] [The Armies are …
World War II
Introduction Richard Overy The Path to War 1919-39 [rtoc] The Rise of Extremism Post-War Europe [Mussolini and the Fascists] [Hitler and Nazism] [Anti-Semitism in Germany] Japanese Imperialism [Japanese Society] [The Chinese Civil Wars] [The Rape of Nanking] Rearmament and Expansion [European Rearmament] [Spanish Civil War] [The Free City of Danzig] [/rtoc] War Begins in Europe …
The Politics Book
Introduction Ancient Political Thought: 800BCE – 30CE[rtoc] Confucius: If your desire is for good, the people will be good Sun Tzu: The art of war is of vital importance to the state Mozi: Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned Plato: Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest …