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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...

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...

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. 'Along with the late Edward Said, I...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The Cultural Tutor - Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You'd Learned at School

'The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about every continent, every religion, every tradition of a...

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 ...

The Nineties - A Book

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

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...

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...

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...

Military Strategy - A Global History

A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures o...

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 ...

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

This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.

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...

Culture

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a de...

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

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • Nominated for a National Book Criti...

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 Witch - A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's his...

Empires of the Steppes - The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world. ?A rollercoaster of historical narration' Histo...

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...

Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments - A Story of Survival

How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 ...

Post-Socialism and Globalization

Death - A Graveside Companion

Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ri...

The Rest is History Returns - An A-Z of Historical Curiosities

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) ...

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...

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

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something qu...

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...

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...

Loot - How Israel Stole Palestinian Property

During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth wa...

The Center of the World - A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present

"This is an excellent, engagingly written overview of the political and commercial history of a crucial waterway mostly known for the vag...

The Invention of Good and Evil - A World History of Morality

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This fat, complex, good-natured and intriguing book is full of such memorable material...startling and oft...

Great Kingdoms of Africa

An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Va...

Battleground - 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have ro...

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 Myths That Made America - An Introduction to American Studies

This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still deter...

The Bin Laden Papers - How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder--told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle As seen on 6...

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...

Lakota America - A New History of Indigenous Power

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Time...

From Peoples into Nations - A History of Eastern Europe

A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II dec...

The Untold History of the United States

**The New York Times bestseller** **Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter...

Korea - A History

While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world...

African Europeans - An Untold History

A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.

The Chinese Myths - A Guide to the Gods and Legends

The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese...

The History of Central Asia - The Age of Islam and the Mongols

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. I...

All She Lost - The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah

?Poignant and compelling... will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News In...

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...

Saudi Arabia - A Modern History

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countri...

Empires of the Sky - Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky-a story that ended wi...

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue - Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led th...

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told thr...

Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Black Tuesday

Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World ...

A Brief History of Feminism

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonec...