Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in that inner citadel which great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. Today, when noise is everywhere, distinguished historian Alain Corbin g ..

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, l ..

The crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding-and managed it within mere generations.

Книга Михаила Зыгаря необыкновенно увлекательна, оторваться от нее невозможно. Важнейший момент в истории России становится понятным благодаря тому, что люди, творившие эту историю, показаны совершенно живыми; порой хотелось в голос говорить им: "Нет ..

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires .. ..

A classic work of reportage about the Katy Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself.In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Polesmen, women, and children who were starving, sickly ..

Now in compact paperback, a compelling examination of how brain structure and cultural context interacted in the Neolithic period, 10,000 years ago, to produce unique patterns in belief systems.

Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen at home, exploring the author's life through the places which meant the most to her.

Thanks to albums belonging to one of the sailors aboard U-30 and then U-110, the author has been able to reconstruct the path taken by Kapitanleutnant Fritz Lemp and his crew, including the sailor Willi Brohm, and the fate of these submarines, with texts and also pictures.

Earlier editions, published under title: The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse, are entered in bibliographic records under title.

When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. In this second volume of John Julius Norwich's scintillating history of the Normans in Sicily, Norwich describes the ‚happiest and most glorious chapter of the island's history.‘

The scandalous story of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, lover – and murderer – of King James I.