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The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of ...
A very enjoyable and astringent account of the events that made 1968 and its aftermath so important
The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of ...
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as ...
A beautifully re-imaged account of Captain Cook's great voyages through the Pacific.
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world ...
The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world
Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century ...
A riveting oral history of the Cold War, drawing on interviews with those who lived through its key events, based on the BBC Radio 4 ...
'Brilliant. A timely reminder of the fragility of democracy and the dangers of extreme nationalism.' Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL- A History of the Nazi ...
A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World
Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human ...
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion ...
Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of ...
Following the success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during the Second World War, he was the obvious candidate for ...
Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson ...