A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan.
A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian'A striking success' The Times'Fresh, original and brilliantly vivid' Telegraph'The best all-round book on the subject yet' SpectatorAt about 1.
A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound.
The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism.
Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.
'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa GregoryThe dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood.
'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will SelfDuring the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image.
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad.
For more than a century, textbooks, universities, encyclopedias, and institutions confidently declared that civilization began in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC.
History & Politics: The State, Society, and National Destiny is a political-historical study of how nations rise, stabilize, weaken, or turn against themselves.
Por que si Tenancingo, Villa Guerrero y Zumpahuacan compartieron una serie de procesos locales, y, mas aun, por que si estos municipios fueron impactados por los mismos procesos macroestructurales, sus relaciones de poder han tomado caminos distintos.
Zu diesem Buch: Die vorliegende Lektüre ist eine Zusammenfassung der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Luftfahrt in chronologischer Abfolge mit über 100 Abbildungen.
In einem Paradigmengebet und einer Reimrede verarbeitet Hensel Lebenter, ein Nürnberger Kandelgießer, seine Haft im Schuldturm und schildert in seiner ›Lochordnung‹ die Bedingungen in den Nürnberger Lochgefängnissen unter dem Rathaus.
A Fortunate Shot: The Life of Francesco Morosini, Destroyer of the ParthenonIn the summer of 1687, a Venetian mortar round passed through the marble roof of the Parthenon and detonated the Ottoman gunpowder store within.
Depuis 2021, des recherches ont été menées sur l'acquisition de plus de 400 restes humains provenant des colonies allemandes d'Afrique de l'Ouest et conservés au Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte de Berlin.
Die Renaissance ist eine wirtschaftliche, wissenschaftliche, technische, gesellschaftliche, religiöse, soziale und kulturelle Entwicklung, die einzigartig in der Geschichte ist.
In this book, writer and thinker Ali Mubarak presents a collection of articles that combine personal experience with profound literary insight, presenting a testament to an intellectual and cultural era rich in events and reflections.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v.
Echoes of Britain: Stonehenge: Sun, Stone and Mystery explores the story of Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, from its earliest earthworks and cremation burials to the raising of the great sarsens, the long journey of the bluestones, the mystery of its alignments, and the many myths that have gathered around it.
This book examines how a sovereign state's intelligence apparatus systematically redefined the boundaries of human autonomy, not through aberrant individual conduct, but through institutionalized research frameworks that deliberately excluded informed consent as an operational variable across more than 80 institutions spanning universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies between 1953 and 1973.
They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived.
Eine aktuelle, internationale und kontroverse Bestandsaufnahme soll dieses Buch sein: Wie stark mischen sich beim umstrittenen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump und seinem Familienclan private und öffentliche Interessen?
