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A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the ...
A brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor ...
This brilliantly argued, first-hand account of the author's major discoveries at the renowned archaeological site Catalhoyuk in Turkey, described by Professor Colin Renfrew as ...
For almost five millennia, indigo - a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub - has been at the centre of turbulent ...
Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres ...
On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm ...
Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's ...
This companion book takes fans deeper into the world of Downton Abbey. See the world of Downton come alive before you, with profiles of all ...
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In ...
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human ...
Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Gavin Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a ...
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...
From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first ...
