How did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia? Why were a million Armenians killed during WWI? How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran? Why did the Arab Spring fail? ... Zobraziť viac
Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it - and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies... Zobraziť viac
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered... Zobraziť viac
A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the late antique world (circa 150–750CE) came to differ from "classical civilization." ... Zobraziť viac
Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across divided Germany, and punk was a critical constituent of this movement. Zobraziť viac
As winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light, we seek out warmth, good food, and good company. But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a darker mood - one that has found expression over... Zobraziť viac
A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history―the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans. Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over... Zobraziť viac
There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records... Zobraziť viac
From the great cities of Europe to the jungles of Burma, and from the deserts of North Africa to the remote islands of the South Pacific and the freezing waters of the Arctic, the Second World War touched every continent and ocean on the planet... Zobraziť viac
This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by... Zobraziť viac
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but... Zobraziť viac
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? ... Zobraziť viac
Ivan's War is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, ... Zobraziť viac
This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region... Zobraziť viac
Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus is a history of atomic and nuclear physics. It begins in 1896 with the discovery of radioactivity, which leads to the discovery of the nucleus at the center of the atom... Zobraziť viac
The young D’Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France... Zobraziť viac
The Seleucid Empire (311 - 64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests ... Zobraziť viac
