'The astonishing story of palmistry-from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and...

Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original cha...

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds ...

Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original cha...

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Australia explores Australia's history from ancient times th...

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Australia covers the period 1901 to the present day.

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's ocea...

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centur...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a fam...

Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist, and world explorer. His trav...

A comprehensive view of Australian history which incorporates the work of more than sixty leading...

A comprehensive view of Australian history which incorporates the work of more than sixty leading...

'This is a long-overdue biography of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T.H. Huxley ('D...

'This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many t...

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year

'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cul...