History & Futurology

Synopsis From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of...

Synopsis New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atl...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a bestselling 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In ...

Synopsis Multi Award Winning Book. 'He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles' - S...

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 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 It all started with a long distance cycle ride. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their ...

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 Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...

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 façade of normality the future is ...

Synopsis The Million Copy Bestseller. 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the whole of the earth. Today there is just one. Us. ...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...