History & Futurology

Synopsis Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as ...

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of ...

Synopsis A Pelican Introduction. What makes us human? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has ...

Synopsis Subtitled : What was life like at the turn of the First Millennium. In the year 1000 the world was one of people who feared an apocalyps...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis Folio Society Edition . . . Slip case not included - missing. With a history so extensive, the story of England's people is told in this...

Synopsis International Bestseller. Here for the first time is a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, bas...

Synopsis Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment ...

Synopsis 1215: The Year of Magna Carta is a historical documentation of life in Medieval England written by author and journalist Danny Danziger an...

Synopsis In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that t...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st Century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up o...

Synopsis What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cro...

Synopsis In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their Weroanza - a word that me...

Synopsis Paul G. Bahn (Editor). This is a perfect handbook for all who are interested in our human past. Prepared under the direction of consultant...

Synopsis Andrew Marr, author of two bestselling histories of Great Britain now turns his attention to the world as a whole. A History of the World ...

Synopsis In this engaging and readable narrative, noted classicist and author Robin Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens, w...

Synopsis In The Future, Declassified, Burrows - for the first time - has expanded the most recent Global Trends report into a full-length narrative...

Synopsis Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yo...

Synopsis A major work by one of England's foremost historians, designed for both students & general readers. Includes 200 illustrations & 3...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Stories And Transcripts Of The Moments That Made History. Introduction : Simon Sebag Montefiore. Speeches that Changed the...

Synopsis From the classic Greek origins of the world map, through the elaborately decorated manuscript maps and printed maps of the seventeenth and...

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis This is an exploration of the 21st Century. On the surface nothing seems to be changing, but behind the facade of normality the future is ...