What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle...
An 'essential book for 2023', as selected by the Irish ExaminerIt is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation...
The world is in the midst of what may be the most deadly pandemic of the past 100 years. Threats to humanity, and how we...
Vladimir Putin has turned Russia from fledgling democracy into a police state, and in 2020 a constitutional change gave him the means to stay in...
Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's...
What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? This book asks...
Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are...
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Wonderfully refreshing . . .A must read' Thomas Piketty In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit...
Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but what about the friendships of women writers? A Secret Sisterhood, drawing on letters and diaries, some...
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Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created...
Presents a fresh approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, this introduction assumes no previous knowledge of grammar or ancient languages, but guides readers through the...
'If Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Womanis the fun-filled manual for female survival in the 21st century, everyday sexism is its more politicised sister'...
Gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. This book includes poets and philosophers, rulers...
Adefinitive analysis of France since the First Revolution and Napoleon's demise at Waterloo in 1815...
House of Trump, House of Putinoffers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately...
This book casts a well-deserved spot-light on punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs, stalwarts of typography whose handy knack for summing up a command or...
An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one...
Just in time for her fiftieth birthday, cosmetics industry icon Bobbi Brown has written THE book redefining beauty for women over forty. In a refreshing...
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