Humanities

Of all the civilizations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the g...

On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dis...

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the ...

Compact INTRODUCING guide to Christianity's central figure. Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Chri...

Description: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds If you think you know the truth about Eleven’s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down...

WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson'. 'A hundred years ago, enlightened people i...

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and whit...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ...until now. The History of the World in Bite-Si...

'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful ...

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to a...

Product Description A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant st...

By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators...

Although the Luftwaffe achieved a great deal of success in North Africa between 1940 and 1943, it was hampered by the constant demand for men and m...

This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past' Judith Rice, Guardian'Classicist...

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic, but after conquering the known world, the Republic collapsed into a sea of blood. So terribl...

Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th centur...

INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described ...

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling autho...

Bamber Gascoigne's classic book tells of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country w...

In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the brutal Nazi occupation, went into hiding in a secret annex tucked away withi...

From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie lang...

'Christmas is the perfect time to share the magic of reading with your family and Scrooge's journey to redemption is still as thrilling, moving and...

The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of...

'If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here ... Terrifying, disturbing and g...

The number one hit by multi-million copy bestselling author Kate Mosse. 'LABYRINTH is a reader's Holy Grail . . . a heart-wrenching, thrilling tale...

INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Si...

Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really lik...

The new instalment in T&H's successful myths series (after The Greek and Roman Myths and The Egyptian Myths) introduces the world of the Celts,...

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1...

Product Description Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the fine...

Product Description It’s time to celebrate the end of an era – and the start of a whole new one! Ah, retirement – from here on out it’s all lazy ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST...

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 Emp...

For more than 30 years, J. I. Packer's classic book Knowing God has revealed to well over a million readers the wonder, glory and the joy of knowin...

An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into ...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prow...

Review Reminds us (or tells us) about people, events and practices in the Greek and Roman world, and at the same time explores their contempor...

Review A wide-ranging and lively history of the Greek East that offers a rare combination of erudition and accessibility. -- Andrew Erskine, U...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution ...

From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM A humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the li...

1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance network in Carcassonne - c...

Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the o...

Product Description Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a v...

Product Description 'I have read the future of historical romance, and it's Evie Dunmore' Eva Leigh, author of Dare to Love a Duke Oxford, 1879. ...

It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn't it full of regressive views? Did...

'This is a very worthwhile book. It can change individual lives and the life of our society.' The Dalai Lama Lucidly and beautifully written, Peac...

First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-hi...