Anthology of Logan Pearsall Smith (Fiction - Crime and)

Burman, Edward

Literature & Fiction

Constable and Company Ltd.

Did the age of discovery begin with Columbus?  In this lively and original book, Edward Burman argues passionately that this is a misconception and draws on contemporary accounts to describe how medieval travellers ventured beyond the boundaries of their world well before Columbus' discovery of America in 1492.  Columbus's age of discovery, he argues, would be more accurately termed an "age of rediscovery and exploitation."

The World Before Columbus 1100-1492

History

Virgin Books

The inquisition of an imprisoned Knights Templar initiate leads an ambitious churchman, Brother Jacques Fornier, and Nicolas de Lirey, an aristocrat fallen on hard times, to a hidden relic and political intrigue

The Image of Our Lord

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

"Frameworks must be lived with and explored before they can be broken." Thomas Kuhn Discovery is a scientific process that must unfold in time. Oxygen was first described as 'air itself entire', and Uranus was assumed to be a comet because all the planets were known and named. It takes time for us to realise that something has arrived that did not previously exist, and to stop imposing old terminology and expectations upon it. Using a host of vivid historical examples, Edward Burman uses the 'paradigm shift' thinking explored by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (over a million copies sold) to assess the Internet as a scientific breakthrough like any other. Dismissing its attempted hijack by 'dot com' business as cynical and doomed to failure, he unravels the past and predicts a time close ahead when barriers will fall, perceptions will change, and the Internet will penetrate our way of life with a power greater than electricity, the car or the telephone. If you thought the Internet was someone else's business, think again.

Shift!: The Unfolding Internet - Hype, Hope and History

Business & Money

Economics

wiley

Supremely Abominable Crimes: The Trial of the Knights Templar

Europe

Allison Busby

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. This is about to change with the evolution of what is termed the Stealth Empire characterised by world dominance in the production of consumer goods, a growing share of world manufacturing and a strong sense of nationalism. The Chinese believe that they need to do nothing as they evolve by the middle of the century into the dominant world power. Burman's book opens a window onto this history and growing sense of national destiny. It will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what is going on in the Stealth Empire.

The Stealth Empire

Asia

SOS Free Stock

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, and sits on the world’s second-largest oil and gas reserves. They are also surprisingly close geographically: Iran is only 700 miles across Afghanistan from China’s extreme western border. A 25-year, $100 billion deal for Iran to supply China with oil and gas and the large number of Chinese companies operating in Iran shows that the two are moving increasingly close in both political and economic terms. But what does this mean for the rest of the world, and especially for "the West?" Edward Burman examines how the strikingly similar histories of these two ancient civilizations can inform what the likely consequences for the world of an alliance between them might be.

China and Iran

The History Press

The Templars, Knights of God: The Rise and Fall of the Knights Templars

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Crucible

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, becoming bankers and credit brokers to medieval Europe and the allies of kings and popes. Drawing on contemporary chronicles and original texts, as well as the immense secondary literature, Edward Burman paints a vivid picture of this extraordinary organization of warrior monks and its passage into myth and legend.

The Templars: Knights of God

Occult & Paranormal

Thorsens

First published in 1994 and now available in paperback, an investigation of the mythology surrounding the Templar knights, which examines why these powerful and wealthy warriors found themselves vilified and accused of the most depraved crimes, with a detailed account of the Paris trial of 1310.

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