The most captivating and intriguing 19th-century murders from around the world are re-examined in this disquieting volume, which takes readers on a perilous journey around...
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future ",A great book for anyone who wants to understand...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year",An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument...
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us...
Presents the author's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. This title provides an account of the rise and fall of a great...
Over the past decade, the European Union has fallen into a drawn-out political and economic crisis. In No Culture, No Europe, the contributors argue that...
Politicians have failed us. But democracy doesn’t have to. Bought by special interests, detached from real life, obsessed with re-election.Politicians make big promises, deliver little...
Drawing on examples from sport, diplomacy, business and more, the authors explore how strategic thinking can guide clear- sighted decision-making. From politicians seeking re-election,...
Global institutions have failed to adapt to today's political-economic realities. What went wrong, and how can we reverse our descent into chaos?The United States is...
From the enclosures in seventeenth-century England to the food forests in modern Amsterdam, this is a big history of little spaces, of nature in urban...
100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world's most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have been used as a...
A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringNow part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German...
An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. 'I loved this beautiful, elegiac,...
'This book is FANTASTIC. So giddy and interesting is the journey . . . What a triumph. I loved it.' – Christopher Clark, author of...
What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can...
Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat?...
An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China.In the late 1990s, as the world...
This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the major schools of...
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year",An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics.",-Foreign AffairsThomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century...
The story of the medieval world’s most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the TemplarsThe Assassins and the Templars are two of history’s most legendary groups....
