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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek...
David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...
A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.
Out at the eastern edge of...
Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with...
The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity...
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous...
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.
The restoration of democracy...
London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city
Encircling London...
Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs
Hackney, That Rose-Red...
The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and...
Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical...
Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...
If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...
This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the...
In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...
Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...
In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...
Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and...
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...
'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater...
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...
During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of...
Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek...
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the...
Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...
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