This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours... Zobraziť viac
From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives... Zobraziť viac
Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars... Zobraziť viac
The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide against the insurgency, paving the way... Zobraziť viac
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium... Zobraziť viac
Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since... Zobraziť viac
A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. It offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a heterogeneous... Zobraziť viac
Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. Zobraziť viac
It draws on knowledge and cooking skills to help you make better choices, showing you how to buy economically and efficiently, get the most out of your ingredients, save time and prevent food waste... Zobraziť viac
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers... Zobraziť viac
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates... Zobraziť viac
An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation. The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked... Zobraziť viac
This new edition of the Essay also includes other writings and diary extracts that show Malthus's intellectual development after his landmark treatise... Zobraziť viac
Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse of the reality behind the headlines... Zobraziť viac
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of... Zobraziť viac
Penguin: Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of... Zobraziť viac
Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her... Zobraziť viac
Soups from the garden, bisques from the sea, famous fish stews from Provence and Normandy, the real French crunchy bread, meats, vegetables and desserts in variety, all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and superb illustrations, ... Zobraziť viac
The Gulag was Russia’s forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive... Zobraziť viac
Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now... Zobraziť viac
