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The Hero with a Thousand Faces - The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's revolutionary ...

How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave in...

Why The West Rules - For Now - The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundre...

The Finest Illustrated Maps of Hungary, 1528-1895 - DVD INCLUDED

Maps are true reflections of history. They offer snapshots of conditions in the region they deal with at a given moment. The present volu...

Ecclesiastical Treasures in Hungary

In Hungary there are more than thirty monastic collections that survived the vicissitudes of history throughout the centuries. This title...

Kéklő hegyek alatt lótuszok tava - Lotus Lake under Blue Mountains - Tanulmányok Bethlenfalvy Géza tiszteletére - Essays in honour of Géza Bethlenfalvy

Ezzel az ünnepi kötettel magyar és külföldi indológusok és orientalisták szeretnék kifejezni tiszteletüket Bethlenfalvy Géza oktatói és t...

How the World Made the West - A 4,000-Year History

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that def...

Nexus - A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brou...

Russia Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage c...

Mercenaries and Crusaders

Memoria Hungariae 15. A Mercenaries and Crusaders c. 2022 nyarán a Debreceni Egyetemen megrendezett nemzetközi középkortörténeti konfe...

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as 'The War of Independence', but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the `...

Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World

Originally published: London: Elliot and Thompson Limited, 2015, with the subtitle Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know abo...

Nuclear War - A Scenario

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of Ameri...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

With a new introduction from the author, this is the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer prize-winning story of how the atomic bomb ...

From Here to Eternity - Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she ...

The Danube - A Cultural History

The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest, it tou...

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are t...

The Nineties - A Book

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—...

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels - How Human Values Evolve

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most pe...

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A triumph' Guardian'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic ...

From Here to Eternity - Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From...

The Immortality Key - The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the or...

Tokyo Noir - in and out of Japan's underworld

The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It¿s been a while since Jake Adelstein w...

Muqaddimah - An Introduction to History

The Muqaddimah is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the renowned fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn ...

The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical...

A History of the World in 100 Objects

A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter im...

Congo

An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory ...

Jerusalem

The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three fait...

Floriography - An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers

A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. ...

Winter Uniforms of the German Army - Army, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS

Comprising 448 pages, this illustrated book is the first comprehensive reference work covering winter uniforms used by the German Army, A...

Post-Socialism and Globalization

Pathogenesis - How germs made history

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating...

The Earth Transformed - An Untold History

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our unde...

The Achilles Trap - Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United ...

Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ¿'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES 'This celebra...

Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments - A Story of Survival

"Syria, for millennia at the crossroads between East and West, has always been a melting pot of different cultures. In this book, its 400...

The Battle for Syria - International Rivalry in the New Middle East

Turkey Under Erdogan - How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

Dimitar Bechev traces the political trajectory of Erdogan's populist regime, from the era of reform and prosperity in the 2000s to the ef...

The Crime Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

With more than 100 crimes to explore, from Jack the Ripper to pirates and modern day drug cartels, "The Crime Book" examines the science,...

Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different

This collection of profiles (including Rimbaud, Frank Ocean, Barack Obama and more) offers a way through the connected problem of a lack ...

Death - A Graveside Companion

A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to ...

The Arabs - A History

Eugene Rogan is author of the bestselling The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. He is professor of moder...

Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes

A History of Masculinity - From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sund...

The Fourth Turning - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future."-USA Weekend William Strauss and Neil How...

The Book of Yokai - Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

Praise for the First Edition of The Book of Yōkai: "Foster creates engagingly rich portraits of yōkai. . . . Kijin's illustrations draw o...

The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023

Sabretache Plates - Treasures of the Hungaian Conquerors of the Carpathian Basin

Sabretaches were characteristic pieces of attire in the Hungarian Conquest period. Men of arms wore them on their weapon belts keeping th...

A History of Women in 101 Objects - A walk through female history

From a hunger strike medal to a bidet, the Amazon rainforest to the plantations of South Carolina, Simone de Beauvoir to Beyonce, this is...

On the Trail of the Indo-Europeans: From Neolithic Steppe Nomads to Early Civilisations

For more than 3000 years, Indo-European languages have been spoken from India through Persia and into Europe. Where are the origins of th...

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in...

The Invention of China

The history, territory, and language of "China? are not ancient facts but modern inventions, turned into a national myth by a small group...

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.

Military Strategy - A Global History

Jeremy Black explores the relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy. Taking a "total? v...

Ignorance - A Global History

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day

The World - A Family History

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told throu...

Great Cities - The Stories Behind the World's most Fascinating Places

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's globa...

Endgame

The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a ...

The Golden Road - How Ancient India Transformed the World

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't...

Legendary Children - The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the po...