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The Well-Tempered Society has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Monteverdi and His Constellation, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

A History of the World in12 Diseases focuses on the key diseases and infections that have shaped the modern world as we know it. This book chronicles the diseases that have changed the world, helped us to develop vaccines and technology, and ultimately altered the course of history. It includes...

Poison and Politics, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

Early Greece, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

More series of Misha Glenny’s BBC Radio 4 show about the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide Former BBC Central European correspondent Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are today. Aided by a wealth...

A Short History of World War II has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

The Lost Continent, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

What if everything you thought you knew about human history was only part of the story? Humans: Our Seven Million Year History offers an ambitious re-examination of our past on a truly global scale, integrating groundbreaking archaeological and scientific discoveries to present a nuanced and...

Simon & Schuster has a great audiobook for every listener...

Chip War meets Guns, Germs, and Steel in this sweeping and urgent discussion of how mineral wealth fuels prosperity and might, revealing that, for more than 5,000 years, the world's most powerful nations have controlled the critical minerals of their day—and how China's current, massive...

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes a gripping tale of exploration, survival, and geopolitical power in the Arctic Circle. The year was 1913. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson was obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island...

An inspiriting guide for relaxing your nervous system, sourcing true resilience, and finding your center in an anxious age. In an era of dumpster fires and doomscrolling, is there any such thing as a healthy relationship with our stress response? While we can’t avoid crisis, we can learn to...

The author, one of the foremost scholars on Africa, fought to legitimize African history for more than 60 years. This book finally uncovers the tumultuous life of this great figure. Through a series of autobiographical essays, Clarke looks back on his lifelong struggle to restore African history...

A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden—from antiquity to present Gardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia...

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women’s and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women’s relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years. Women have served the...

With the suspense of a thriller and the emotional depth of human drama, Beneath Waves and Shadows is the untold, meticulously researched story of survival after a 1906 shipwreck in the Pacific Northwest. On a mild January day in 1906, the Valencia steamed out of San Francisco and began the...

The award-winning author of First Steps returns with a revelatory tour of the latest scientific discoveries in archaeology and paleontology to challenge the idea of human exceptionalism, presenting a more complex—and fascinating—portrait of Us: who came before us, and what of us comes from...

The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire “Lucid, judicious and enjoyable.” (Times Literary Supplement) The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its...

Der Mann an Angela Merkels Seite erzählt erstmals ganz persönlich von seinem Aufwachsen in der SED-Diktatur, seinem Erleben der deutschen Einheit und dem Glück der Freiheit. Anekdotenreich und humorvoll berichtet er vom Umgang mit den Linientreuen, von der turbulenten Zeit nach dem Mauerfall und davon, wie er den politischen Aufstieg seiner Frau zur Bundeskanzlerin erlebt hat.