A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is ...

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been des...

The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world’s most beloved ocean liner. Learn why the Titanic still captur...

From 1913 to 1920, the Molteno-Murray family published a private journal called "Chronicle of the Family". It appeared three times a year, providin...

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended i...

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with it...

Die verhaal van die 1820-Setlaars – Britse emigrante na die onstuimige grens van ‘n afgelee kolonie in die 19de-eeuse Suider-Afrika. Hulle invloed ...

Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and Chin...

'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAIL APRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport pl...

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before th...

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its ...

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC History From Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's firs...

This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Wester...

Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

The definitive book on this important battle of the Wars of the Roses For many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a ‘short scuffle...

From the premise that gathering information is ‘part of mankind’s basic survival instinct’, John Hughes-Wilson surveys the way in which spying has ...

Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendan...

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one...

A landmark study of ancient Greek and Roman cults, from the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis to the cults of Dionysus and Mithras.Mystery cults are o...

Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to kee...

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A sin...