Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and...

50th anniversary edition of this masterwork in art education.

The unique historical nature of small states that maximise the potential of the sea in relation t...

Prize-winning historian M. E. Sarotte pulls back the curtain on the crucial decade between the fa...

A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land

A compelling look at the aesthetic and historical significance of Lagerfeld’s work—from his elega...

'First published in paperback 2010'--Title page verso.

An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art

Pianist Susan Tomes explores her personal selection of one hundred of the best-loved and most-inf...

Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this book tells the story of man from the stone age to...

Mike Jay tells the story of the scientists, writers, artists, and philosophers who took drugs to ...

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European m...