For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative... Zobraziť viac
On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War. Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two... Zobraziť viac
Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, ... Zobraziť viac
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art. Zobraziť viac
Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. 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
Penguin: Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of... 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
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
An astonishing expose of the aftermath of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover up the truth. The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today... 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
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'... Zobraziť viac
The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece. Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963... Zobraziť viac
50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world... Zobraziť viac
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century... 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
Most of us believe that feminism is a force for good. In the past 200 years, it has paved the way for women to advance economically, increasing their safety and their power in society, and advocating for their needs and experiences... 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
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history... Zobraziť viac
