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This title is an impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine. David Cannadine is one ...
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West
The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an ...
This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores ...
The stirring story of one of the modern world's most important intellectual achievements: atheism. Since Friedrich Nietzsche roundly declared that 'God is dead' in ...
On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on ...
Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History is a beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of creatures great and small. These are ...
Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked ...
Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original ...
This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized ...
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in ...