An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century." Today, the world believes that Century has arrived.... Zobraziť viac
The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world... Zobraziť viac
A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist... Zobraziť viac
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, ... Zobraziť viac
A joyful celebration of books – the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who’s ever wondered, should you judge a book by its cover? ... Zobraziť viac
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail... Zobraziť viac
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change... Zobraziť viac
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of... Zobraziť viac
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp... Zobraziť viac
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human... Zobraziť viac
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century... Zobraziť viac
The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians... Zobraziť viac
A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of our foremost medieval historians... Zobraziť viac
Istoriya ukrayinsʹkoho vbrannya nalichuye ne odne tysyacholittya. Shche za syvoyi davnyny nash narod stvoryuvav samobutni zrazky odyahu, vzuttya y aksesuariv, shcho vtilylysya v podalʹshykh variantakh tradytsiynoho kostyuma... Zobraziť viac
In December 1642, during the Civil War, Parliamentarian troops stormed the magnificent Winchester Cathedral, intent on destruction. Reaching the choir, its beating heart, the soldiers searched out ten beautifully decorated wooden chests resting... Zobraziť viac
This book explores the origins of two types of ancient ship connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ and the southern Adriatic ‘lemb’. An extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence... Zobraziť viac
This volume presents the latest research on Roman roads, not just in terms of their basic infrastructure but also exploring various aspects of life that were connected with it, from the Imperial period to that of decline... Zobraziť viac
The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the mercy of an influential and older artist... Zobraziť viac
Throughout history, the concept of command — as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years... Zobraziť viac
