Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas, one-third of the earth's surface, were a near-pristine...
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War...
Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history. The Roman empire...
“A Short History of Ireland stands out for its brevity, but also for its accessibility. . .. A solid introduction not only to the key...
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times *...
‘Deeply interesting … a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession’ Steven Poole, Guardian'Engrossing … bracing … incendiary and timely’ Stuart Jeffries, Daily TelegraphA philosopher explains why...
One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where...
'An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial' Spectator'An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the...
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive...
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from...
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEA SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA profound and ground-breaking new history...
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The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifesto An ancient title of respect for women, the word ",cunt", long ago veered off its noble...
A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, ",Earning the Rockies", offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our...
A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War...
In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep...
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but...
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? &,nbsp, To understand world politics, you need to understand how states...
Do boycotts work? Should arms sales be stopped? What about supplying weapons to the good guys? In How Wars End an international expert explains how...
In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is on the cusp of enormous...
