The official tie-in to the final instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchiseFew places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creating challenges for the wildlife...
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in...
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe,...
The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the...
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book...
Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. No one will ever know the exact figure. Of those, some six million were Jewish, including...
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western...
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan...
'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes the reader with fascinating facts...
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of...
Discover the fascinating details of life under the pharaohs - and their extraordinary legacy - in this comprehensive guide to Egypt's ancient civilization. Encompassing 3,000...
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by...
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in...
Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you...
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new...
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet...
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent...
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central...
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization...
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it...
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