",Vivid, page-turning...will make a signal contribution to the national debate over who should be the next American president",. (Michael Beschloss, bestselling author of Presidential Courage)....
Explains the meanings associated with objects, plants, animals, myths, religious symbols, and images in art....
As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil...
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll...
'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and...
WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE ",FINANCIAL TIMES", BOOK OF THE YEAR Fast-paced and excellently written A much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable explanation... ",The...
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may...
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past....
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for...
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise, Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana,...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were...
From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India, from west to east and back again, this book follows the processes of...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How...
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal KeaneThe first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy...
Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired...
'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant...
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. On...
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