Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

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...

A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Machine’ explores the dark...

A family story and the tale of a nation.

Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a...

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...

A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, and how we can channel it back into the fights that matter, from...

From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential...

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to...

One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war...

'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.'

Clear-eyed, witty and...

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for...

'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United...

Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide...

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks...

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our...

Discover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world.

This beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of...

Who were the men and women behind history's most fascinating and famous wars? This military history book reveals it...