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This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's...

This expanded, illustrated edition of The Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary includes an all-new design, plus gorgeous illustrations by renowned fantasy...

The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they...

The essential political biography of Vladimir Putin.

The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler's and Heinrich Himmler's obsession to prevent the treachery they believed to have caused...

Condensed matter physics is what happens when atoms cluster together to make something of a size we can understand, something...

The author unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's...

The race to control, protect and profit from Earth's new blue frontier

'I am sure this book will cause a 'mania' of its own. Thought-provoking and such fun' Ian Mortimer, bestselling author...

Chapter 1. Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: space, scale and translation / Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney, Griffith University, Australia --...

As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of...

An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and...

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this...

Like all great cartoon creations, from Peanuts to Asterix, from Garfield to Tintin, Simon's Cat has continued to evolve by...

Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down...

In 1935-37 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 public...