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

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

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

An exploration of cannibal monsters and ghouls that feast on human flesh.

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

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

From a leading writer of the sea, an exquisitely illustrated deep dive into the beauty and meanin...

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

Mapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound.

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

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

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...

Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a re...

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

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

However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most signif...

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 ...

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

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

An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital fo...

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...

Though he's known now primarily as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetim...

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

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

A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple--at once a garment of tradition, power, and...

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

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

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.

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, a...

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insi...

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...