Humanities

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last...

Product Description For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of...

Product Description A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning authorTo the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and ...

Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonde...

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English ...

John Vandeleur s letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everythi...

The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies ...

"The Doors of Perception" captures Aldous Huxley's legendary 1953 experiment with mescaline, serving as a definitive masterpiece of psychedelic lit...

Review Chris Kraus' work is not just great but indispensable ... I read everything she writes -- Rachel KushnerKraus' books are all committed ...

This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years....

Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the ti...

Product Description 'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIME...

Product Description The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too b...

About the Author J. P. Mallory is a world expert on the interconnection of archaeology and linguistics and is the author of the standard work In S...

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Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. 'I am like no one else in the whole world ...' Thus begi...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining th...

About the Author Professor Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Y...

If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then...

Review Fascinating -- Laura Freeman ― The Times Very entertaining . . . the preservation of old houses, a cause with which many of the leading ch...

About the Author Dimitra Papagianni is a Palaeolithic and stone tool specialist, who has taught at Cambridge and Oxford. Michael A. Morse is a his...

The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achiev...

Review Joan Aiken has an eye for original situations and characters ... a stolen formula, a kidnapped baby and a strange brotherhood keep the ...

About the Author Richard Wolfrik Galland is a writer and games designer. He has worked as a magazine editor for Games Workshop and as a games desi...

St Augustine's insight was that it is only the merciful humility of God that could penetrate our armoured pride. As we follow this book through Len...

John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format via concise, insightful and engaging text summaries along...

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Her...

Total War is an illustrated account of the most pivotal historical episode of the 20th century: the Second World War. It was not one single event, ...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep...

Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazine The year 2022 ...

Product Description The Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest fighting forces ever deployed. With it...

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against...

They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-liv...

Product Description 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoiss...

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care ...

Product Description In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulat...