Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an...
Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounter...
Deft, absorbing and informativeTimes Literary Supplement Informative, essential reading on women's mountaineering wrapped within a profoundly personal memoir. There is jo...
Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the vitality of the natural world. Yet, as Ben Wilson reveals in this invigorating re-examination of urban landscapes across the gl...
Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMEDThis is the story of a ...
In the 1930s, women and men from across the world made their way to Spain to be part of what they saw as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future follows extraordinary...
A tense, thrilling account of how, in 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly caused global Armageddon.1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dange...
Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's nightmarish narcotics underworld. Among the island's drug dealers 'It's snowing in Bali' is code that the south-east Asian paradise is full of cocaine. For t...
Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.'
A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor. ‘A book that will stay with you for lif...
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah...
The words of a man. The message of a people.Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the ...
On the four sides of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets display the names of 660 honoured commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are those of generals and marshals of ...
Everything the young fan wants to know about Liverpool Football Club, packed with facts about the legendary players, managers, matches and more that tell the story of the football institution belov...
Podczas drugiej wojny światowej w szeregach alianckich walczyło niemal milion żołnierzy Żydów. W okupowanych przez Niemcy krajach Europy Żydzi stawiali opór zbrojny – do jego na...
From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; ...
Chopin in Paris: The 1830s to szósta z serii publikacji pokonferencyjnych. Znalazły się w niej rozszerzone wersje referatów wygłoszonych na VI Międzynarodowej Konferencji Chopinologic...
Chopin und Wien jest publikacją zawierającą wybrane referaty wygłoszone podczas międzynarodowej konferencji chopinologicznej, która została zorganizowana w Wiedniu w dniach 19-21 kwietnia 20...
Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name...
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has developed a bad reputation....