A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - The Daily Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'Packed with revealing content' - IndependentUnderdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Alexander McKee and Simon Girty were colonial British Indian agents who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed them when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland.
Die vielfältigen Begleiterscheinungen von Klimawandel und Artensterben werden geologisch mit dem Anbruch eines neuen Erdzeitalters, dem Anthropozän, identifiziert.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
In the book "Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity", published by Tirs Publishing and Distribution HouseGary Cross explores the cultural shift that has led to prolonged adolescence in modern American males, analyzing its implications and origins.
Amidst the turmoil of religious wars and political discord, Henry IV rose from a Protestant prince in Navarre to become one of Europe's most iconic monarchs.
En la actualidad, cuando la globalizacion ha llegado a su apogeo y las fronteras nacionales parecen debilitadas, cuando miles de personas arriesgan todo por cruzar a otros territorios y otras dan su vida por su pais en medio de guerras, reflexionar sobre la nacion y su formacion como institucion no solo resulta pertinente, sino que es urgente.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, ein künstlerisches Genie der Renaissance, arbeitete im Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer Freiheit und den ambitionierten Plänen der mächtigsten Mäzene seiner Zeit: den Päpsten.
