Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions - a billion-dollar global...
A fully revised and updated guide to America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict – 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and...
This revised and updated edition of The American Revolution offers an accessible and authoritative account of the war that forged a nation.From the first sparks...
Insiders call it the Craft.Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades...
The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the...
The first full-length narrative history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the esoteric society at the centre of the 19th- and...
Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. No one will ever know the exact figure. Of those, some six million were Jewish, including...
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan...
The third installment in Valiz's Slow Reader series explores myriad perspectives on technological futures Published with Slow Research Lab.Following Slow Reader: A...
Mapping out the world's infamous art thefts, forgeries, and acts of vandalism, this unique and visually striking reference illuminates the prevalence, motivations, and consequences of...
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new...
The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all...
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had...
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization...
Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the ",land of no...
Slovenský spisovateľ a historik Jozef Leikert sa štyridsať rokov zaoberá študentskými udalosťami po 17. novembri 1939, keď nacisti násilím zatvorili české vysoké školy, na ktorých...
The Handbook of Private International Law is a valuable tool for anyone interested in this dynamically evolving field of law. It is designed to be...
Seven minutes past midnight on 9 March 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a more...
The definitive story of cannabis, from its evolution and biological quirks to its role in human history &,nbsp, In this entertaining natural history,...
In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and...
