Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas...

Butman... , Targett...

In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us...

Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish...

In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical...

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s...

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

Since the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of crises, resignations and general elections. Theresa...

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?

Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning...

Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David...

The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St...

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century...

Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men...

In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America's decline...

As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards...

Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to...

The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive...

How should we talk about sex?

It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public...

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?

Bellingcat, the...

By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.

Nandor...

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to...