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A much-needed behind-the-scenes survey of an emerging Asian power
The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is ...
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we ...
Captain Scott perished with four of his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole in March 1912. Almost immediately the myth was founded ...
The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust ...
This vibrantly illustrated book is an original look at the myriad roles played by textiles in all aspects of human life, from ancient weavings to ...
A sparkling biography of one of history's greatest rulers, written in Nancy Mitford's trademark gossipy style
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS
Frederick ...
An eclectic, affectionate biography of Louis XV's most famous and enduring mistress
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that ...
History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them. She ...
Concerned with new frontiers in our understanding of God, this book aims to spread the light of theological knowledge, 'ever ancient, ever new'. 'Since the ...
January 2012 will mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's arrival at the South Pole with his team. Tragically, Scott's entire party died ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
