'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 c...

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...

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.

Of all the great British rock bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place ...

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...

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...

For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Churchs Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror ...

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

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

Three Germanies: From Partition to Unification and Beyond, Second Expanded Edition

'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...

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

From iconic paintings by Vincent van Gogh to their much-spat seeds at baseball games, the massive...

Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramat...

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...

A stunning, beautifully illustrated exploration of urban underground spaces, bringing together a ...

A beautifully illustrated botanical and cultural history of the yew.

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

'This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films ...

'Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated i...

Laced with illustrations of undergarments both prosaic and exotic, a global exposé of the hidden ...

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

From a leading popular philosopher, an uplifting meditation on the nature and power of optimism.

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 ...

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

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...