Discover the gripping, action-packed history of the motorcycle, from the earliest petrol-powered two-wheelers to the blistering superbikes of today. Tracing the history and allure of...
Prepare to embark on a journey through space and time with The NASA Archives, a visual celebration of humankind’s unstoppable urge to travel...
Why do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the...
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's...
The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have...
Over a thousand years of history. One house. Countless lives. This is the extraordinary story of England told through one ordinary house – from the...
This book introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history of feminism. Spanning the late...
What should you do at Christmas? In Edvard Munch's Christmas in the Brothel, the artist depicts himself sleeping off the effects of drink, but the...
Freedom Ship is a gripping history of stowaway slaves and the vessels that carried them to liberty. Up to 100,000 fugitives successfully fled the horrors...
The history of selling sex is a hidden one, its practitioners a 'damnable crew' pushed to the margins of history. Harlots, Whores &,amp, Hackabouts redresses...
This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the...
Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and...
We live in an age in which extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from unfathomable sources, such as when tech firms that have never made a...
'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the...
The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. First issued in 1910, each card is...
Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense In December 2013, David Satter became the first American...
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A...
Amid mounting fears of violent Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. In a groundbreaking ethnographic...
This classic study remains the definitive account of witchcraft and magic in the centuries following the witch trials. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 brought an...
'A highly original thinker' -&,nbsp,New York Times&,nbsp,David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind....
