Eyewitness to history is written in short chapters that covers historic events ranging from Socrate's death right through to 9/11. Many of the event I knew about however there were a few in there t...
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called...
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? This book explores the historical backgro...
Charles Manson was an unlikely messiah. Freshly paroled, he stumbled into San Francisco in 1967 just as thousands of impressionable young people were streaming into town for the Summer of Love. Pos...
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia.
This book documents a difficult period, with the whole of China fighting the coronavirus outbreak. It is part our effort to give readers both at home and abroad a full picture of China's battle aga...
'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' -- Brad StoneCan th...
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured ...
This work is an attempt to assess to what extent the new economic governance of the EU helped to discipline public finances in the member states.The poor institutional design of the EU, the a...
Książka The World of Islam in Research Perspectives of Oriental Studies and Political Science pod redakcją Michała Dahla, Pawła Hanczewskiego i Magdaleny Lewickiej to niezwykle interesująca monogra...
Książka The World of Islam in Research Perspectives of Oriental Studies and Political Science pod redakcją Michała Dahla, Pawła Hanczewskiego i Magdaleny Lewickiej to niezwykle interesująca monogra...
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing...
Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance.Less well-known is the man behind the brand.For nearly seventy years, Enzo Ferrari dominated a motor-...
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns ...
JAROSŁAW WENTA Narratives of Art / 7IRMA TRATTNERMethods of Art Science: New Aspects and Perspectives of Art History / 17ANNA BŁAŻEJEWSKA‘Native’ Figural A...
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to li...
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and gran...
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the B...
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?Shortlisted ...