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James Carroll, author of the award-winning, bestselling Constantine's Sword , tells the richly layered story of the city of Jerusalem and its extraordinary impact on ...
In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights ...
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the ...
In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces ...
A brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor ...
This monumental work, covering Kissinger's first four years (1969-1973) as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and President Nixon's closest advisor ...
This brilliantly argued, first-hand account of the author's major discoveries at the renowned archaeological site Catalhoyuk in Turkey, described by Professor Colin Renfrew as ...
For almost five millennia, indigo - a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub - has been at the centre of turbulent ...
Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres ...
Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's ...
On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm ...
This companion book takes fans deeper into the world of Downton Abbey. See the world of Downton come alive before you, with profiles of all ...
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human ...
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In ...