The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took...
If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book ...
Mity i opowieści rdzennych mieszkańców AmerykiMagia rodzi się z przyrody, ale na świat przynoszą ją też potężne istoty – boski Wielki Duch, stwórca Nanabozo czy odrażające...
A Holocaust story as fascinating and compelling as it is terrifying and puzzling — a book about aging and war crimes, pain, and pride.In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat rad...
Explore space like you've never known before with this children's encyclopedia perfect for a young astronomer.Forming part of a fantastic series of kid's educational books, this bold an...
Imagine if you could travel back in time and walk the streets of the past. Where would you go first?Incredible History turns back time to reveal realistic reconstructions of the most in...
*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesT...
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nat...
Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and auth...
For half a millennium, throughout almost the entire medieval period, the Catholic church sanctioned military campaigns against what it perceived as its enemies. The rise of Islam and its spread acr...
A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' ANTHONY SELDONA riv...
This album accompanies the Trails of Hope The Odyssey of Freedom project and is dedicated toGeneral Władysław Anders, whose figure is forever associated with the exodus of our compatriots
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or ...
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains...
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object: the coin.When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by h...
What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were?For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, differe...
What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousnes...
On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz.Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely intelligent and driven, he founded a moveme...
A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the Unite...