In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a New Popular Front of parties...
Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis....
Why did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?Part of...
Jews have long embraced their identity as the people of the book. But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little...
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and...
How our shifting sense of ",what's normal", defines the character of democracy...
A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state...
Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind...
*** PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category ***A Practical Guide to Studying History is the perfect guide for students embarking on degree-level study....
Welcome to the museum! There are more than 160 animal specimens to bediscovered in Animalium, the first in a series of virtual museums. Wander thegalleries...
The French Revolution of 1789 had grand humanitarian aims that would one day inspire the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russians took the French revolutionary agenda...
National Geographic and author Michael Farquhar uncover an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From...
You know about MI5. You know about MI6. Now uncover the mystery behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of...
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day",Fluently written, impeccably researched and...
Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more...
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order When it comes...
International migration presents the human face of globalization, with consequences that make headlines throughout the world. The Cross-Border Connection ",addresses a paradox at the core...
A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a...
A prominent authority on China's Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing's project of the century",A reality check on Beijing's global...
Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies...
