Ask our staff anything about our shop or products, or leave your feedback.
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled ...
A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ...
Why is the world the way it is? What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution, influenced the ...
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world ...
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the ...
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that ...
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite ...
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation ...
'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed ...
Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and do ...
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well ...
Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its ...
Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to ...
