This is the first volume to trace the history of equestrian sports, including individual and team results across the sport's three official Olympic disciplines: dressage,...
A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body - and the latest in the bestselling 'Explorer' Collection Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body...
In 2009 Rovio Entertainment wowed the world when it unleashed an unlikely gaming phenomenon: Angry Birds. For the first time, this stunning coffee table book...
Special moments in our lives leave special marks on the whole of world history. Picture Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon, the fall of...
An epic history of the birth of news in EuropeNews moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper,...
THE TRANSFORMATION OF UTOPIA IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, FROM A ROMANTIC IDEAL TO A POLITICAL OBJECTIVEUntil the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a...
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead...
There has been much scaremongering about the `death of the book', and how, as words find new ways and means of transmission, young people might...
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Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the...
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some...
A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games. Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with calculators inspired Gunpei Yokoi to...
Since its first edition, Renfrew and Bahn’s Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice has been the leading educational source on what archaeologists do and how they...
Between the boundaries of fine and popular art and high and low culture, reside id-driven impulses and alter egos as toys, cartoon characters, and iconic...
The Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’. If humans are that close to angels, does the...
Become a master of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast, incredibly varied, and richly complex. Different worlds, different timelines, countless characters....
The first full, interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its very beginnings up to the threshold of Classical...
The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent, by...
A combination of beautiful design, a toch of exclusiveness and a unique history turn a normal product into a phenomenon - they becom bult. they...
The book will delve into the world of Japanese subcultures and the obsessive approach that many people take to their hobbies, passions and lifestyle choices....
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