Author: Andrew Robinson

The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remain...

In ten incisive chapters Andrew Robinson provides a clear focus to each segment of the unfolding story of Indian history, from the remarkable citie...

A highly readable (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein''s life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics...

Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and sc...

Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the Fr...

I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali', noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, ad...

I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali', noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, ad...

Linear B is Europes oldest readable writing, dating from the middle of the second millennium BC. This book, newly available in paperback, tells the...