Explains the meanings associated with objects, plants, animals, myths, religious symbols, and images in art....
As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil...
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way...
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll...
'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and...
WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE ",FINANCIAL TIMES", BOOK OF THE YEAR Fast-paced and excellently written A much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable explanation... ",The...
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may...
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past....
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup...
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for...
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise, Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana,...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were...
From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India, from west to east and back again, this book follows the processes of...
'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays....
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How...
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal KeaneThe first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy...
Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired...
