Helen Macdonald's first book, now republished with a new introduction, is a lyrical yet informed ...

The compelling story of one of America's most adventurous jazz musicians.

Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth century, Asteroids is a fully up ...

The central argument of 'Chromophobia' is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or c...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her wor...

Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition and tenderness.

What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases, from the US...

Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 8 - 1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the N...

Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a she...

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual viole...

Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how spor...