This richly illustrated comprehensive edition contains an analysis of a multi-thousand-year period of human history: the prehist...

Richard 3 went down in history as a great king. He was the last king from the House of York. Jacob Abbott remembers historical...

This book covers the whole history of England after the death of Richard 1. Great emphasis is placed on the coming to power of...

This is not just a story, but a biography of Cleopatra, an evil woman who studies the effect of poison on her prisoners, and t...

'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-...

During the construction of the Eastern China Railway in the firs and second decades of the 20th century, the Far Eastern city o...

'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer 'A riveting account of human error and...

In 2015, it is 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, but it remains a controversial war among veterans and politicians, wh...

The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceive...

Autor przedstawia najważniejsze epizody dwusetletniej historii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz sylwetki jego rektorów, wybitnyc...