History

Jim Leary Hardback 288 pages On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archa...

PaperbackRuth Goodman We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer ...

Randall Sullivan Hardback 352 pages How we explain the evils of the world - and the darkest parts of ourselves - has preoccupied humans throughout history. In The Devil's Best Trick, Randall S...

Author: Sunil Amrith, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 432...

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 576...

Author: Neil Buttery , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

Florian Illies Paperback 336 pages 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anx...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...

Olivia Swarthout Hardback 208 pages Bursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for all of life's biggest problems. Whether it's...

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...

Jonathan Eig Paperback 688 pages The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical v...

Ian Kershaw Hardback 512 pages One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had comman...

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to ca...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Author: Dan Jones, Cover: Softback, Pages: 464...

Author: William Dalrymple, Cover: Softback, Pages: 608...

Peter Godfrey-Smith Paperback The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Mi...

Hardback 320 pages...

Grace Blakeley Paperback 400 pages Everything you know about capitalism is wrong. Free markets aren t really free. Record corporate pro fits don t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren t em...

Tania Branigan Paperback 304 pages An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard storie...

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...

Alexander Christie-Miller Paperback Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history...

What do nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, and drag queens in New York all have in common? This book is number one on their Christmas list....