Joan Eloi Roca

22 books

The Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The Persians: The Age of The Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

400 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini

A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World

Julian Baggini

192 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris

War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots

Ian Morris

495 pages • 2014

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future by Ian Morris

Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future

Ian Morris

681 pages • digital • 2010

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

352 pages • hardcover • 1871

fiction childrens classics fantasy hopeful reflective slow-paced
Bizancio: Los primeros siglos by John Julius Norwich, Joan Eloi Roca

Bizancio: Los primeros siglos

John Julius Norwich, Joan Eloi Roca

missing page info • 1988

adventurous informative tense slow-paced
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

405 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
El papa en guerra: La historia secreta de Pío XII, Mussolini y Hitler by David I. Kertzer, Joan Eloi Roca

El papa en guerra: La historia secreta de Pío XII, Mussolini y Hitler

David I. Kertzer, Joan Eloi Roca

768 pages • 2022

nonfiction history religion dark informative tense slow-paced
The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager

The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France

Eric Jager

256 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Leviathan: Or, The Whale by Philip Hoare

Leviathan: Or, The Whale

Philip Hoare

352 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction nature science reflective slow-paced