A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022&,nbsp,In this gripping book, Andrew Doig explores the fascinating biology of our own mortality and, crucially, what death can...
“A Short History of Ireland stands out for its brevity, but also for its accessibility. . .. A solid introduction not only to the key...
The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship",A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and...
Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations...
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive...
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from...
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEA SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA profound and ground-breaking new history...
Fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this special commemorative book by royal biographer Brian Hoey - who had the privilege of meeting Diana on several occasions...
'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration...
In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikoetter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into...
The current challenges of human rights protection go beyond the borders of individual states and require the commitment of the international community as a whole....
Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned...
In this ",provocative", book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad...
A spellbinding history of South America, as heard on hit podcast The Rest Is History'Absolutely wonderful' DOMINIC SANDBROOK'A luscious, erudite romp ... a tour de...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”—Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of...
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and...
The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals...
The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times - Ezra KleinThe Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad...
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. 'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS'Uncovers the Po's fascinating...
Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time....
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