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 extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest state and its decline and fallWith Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh...
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is...
This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of all time.Immerse yourself in ancient Chinese...
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 FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible. Orthodox Christianity is the face...
THE TRANSFORMATION OF UTOPIA IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, FROM A ROMANTIC IDEAL TO A POLITICAL OBJECTIVEUntil the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a...
Elsewhere is the definitive oral history of British skateboarding. Told chronologically from the beginning of its identity shift to the start of the...
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...
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...
The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient...
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...
This dazzling, large-format hardback presents John James Audubon's classic Birds of America in a brand new collector's edition, boldly presented in full-colour with gold blocking...
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...
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative,...
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...
