General & World History

In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II.

It was September 12, 1962, when Pres. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people.

It was almost exactly 15.00 hours local time, on 25 June 1950, when nine Yakovlev Yak-9P fighters of the North Korea's `Korean People's Air Force' (KPAF) simultaneously attacked Seoul International Airport and the Kimpo Airfield outside Seoul, the capitol of South Korea.

The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today.

'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher Education

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword.

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall.<

A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?'

'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory.