'This is a book about ten women who, over the past three hundred years have found walking essenti...

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or con...

In Coffee: A Global History, Jonathan Morris explains how the world acquired a taste for coffee, ...

Karl Schlögel beweist mit dem Titel 'Entscheidung in Kiew: Ukrainische Lektionen' erneut, dass er...

It began with The Beatles Helter Skelter. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. ...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness, the philosophy of emotions...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her wor...

Berlin is a comprehensive short history and portrait of the German capital today.

Helen Macdonald's first book, now republished with a new introduction, is a lyrical yet informed ...

Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a she...

What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases, from the US...

Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how spor...

This book is a comprehensive investigation of lying in everyday life. What exactly is a lie, and ...

Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature...

Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historic...

Virginia Woolfs novel famously beginsMrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Of cour...

When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above ...

Originally published as El duelo de los ángeles; Valencia, Spain: Pre-Textos,2004, and in Mexico ...

Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and re...

'Many of us, proponents and critics alike, commonly make assumptions about religion. We may presu...

Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanes...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 8 - 1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the N...

It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a sympto...

'Order to me is to be ordered about,' Willem de Kooning said. Between Sense and de Kooning explor...

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A H...

This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communicatio...

Many of the world's major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigati...

'Offal' has the same pronunciation as 'awful'--an appropriate homophone, given that offal compris...

Rest your eyes long enough on the skylines of Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta--even Chicago or London--...

'This book is a new, beautifully illustrated account of Venus, taking in the most recent research...

An examination of 'racial science' in the 19th and early 20th century.

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history, Yew will appeal to botanists and other readers in...

A profoundly enlightening look at loneliness in modern life.

From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity...

The story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working act...

A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as th...

Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating...

A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun's city that became modern Tokyo.

In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerfu...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

'Viking literature is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs and defiant...

There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum, writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner ...

Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsid...

'Kimono: A Modern History' traces the transformation of the kimono from everyday garment to natio...

Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necro...

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodo...

In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current ...