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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on ...
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius ...
The readable, deeply authoritative and bestselling book on the Orthodox Church, in a fully updated and revised Third Edition
'Orthodoxy claims to be universal . . .'
Since ...
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young soldier training ...
This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings ...
Drawing on a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skilfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler ...
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past ...
A magnetic book on the North Sea brimming with rollicking adventures, vivid characters and witty observations
Between the fall of Rome and the dawn of ...
"This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like ...
In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from France at ...
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and ...