A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the...
In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet...
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did...
An elegant new translation of Benjamin's moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhoodComposed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole...
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s...
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows...
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow'...
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against ",ableist", discourse and...
A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses...
'Deftly punctures popular misconceptions... Could a history book be more timely?' The Economist'Engaging and persuasive' New Statesman'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's...
Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders...
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years comes a contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American power. In THE...
'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard. A classic history of nomenclature - loaded, complex and absorbing.' -Simon Garfield, author...
Ilan Pappe's pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political...
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and...
'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' TimeThis is the definitive book on mindfulness from the beloved Zen master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich...
Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we 'feel blue' or 'see red'?...
The American experiment rests on three ideas-",these truths",, Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, ",on...
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World...
The civilizations of Greece and Rome that flourished in Mediterranean Europe did not develop in isolation. To their north, non-literate peoples inhabited river valleys, mountains,...
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