History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)

What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?

'An intellectual hero .

Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas.

An authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations.

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The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sich selbst als eigenständiges Wesen wahrzunehmen, als bewusstes Ich – das zählt zweifellos zu den faszinierendsten Fähigkeiten unseres Gehirns.

A major rediscovery and reevaluation of a lost strand of English literature from one of today's most brilliant scholars.

El libro esboza una visión, desde la  e pistemología  e volucionista, sobre la dinámica de desarrollo del conocimiento científico.

Este libro trata sobre las condiciones históricas de producción de conocimientos científicos sociales en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX.

A remarkable new novel from the Wellcome Trust longlisted author.

Seit Jahrtausenden strebt der Mensch nach Fortschritt, Ordnung und Sicherheit.

Francis Bacon is considered the father of modern science.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton's day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers.

Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War.

The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years.

What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in postcolonial Africa?