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What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise ...
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpower ...
How does a man become a God?
It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an oldmagazine. It can ...
The definitive history of Ukraine which helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian ...
This highly accessible guide to world history brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelines
Packed with illustrations and fascinating facts, this book ...
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ...
'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
A groundbreaking investigation of ...
Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.
The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.
In A ...
THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.
The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest ...
One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. 'A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future ...
John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have shaped ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner.
Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre ...
In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years ...
