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Since the problems of race relations are worldwide, the international origins and perspectives of this excellent and timely book are especially adv...

Since the problems of race relations are worldwide, the international origins and perspectives of this excellent and timely book are especially adv...

A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new bo...

The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. a...

'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent ac...

‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their wa...

‘Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fasc...

Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would domina...

How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world affected human history.In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens o...

The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks,...

This is a brilliant collection of landscape photography that gives the inspiration needed to take great digital photographs. Techniques include how...

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among wes...