Christopher Robbins Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few...

Antonia Fraser Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French...

Paul Kieve Magic tricks to amaze your friends and stupefy your family from the magic consultant on the Harry Potter movies, with an introduction by Daniel Radcliffe.From the magic consultant...

Charles Glass What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian...

Roy Porter For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Shelf wear to dust jacket, bookseller's pencil marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday. January 1, 2007 by Bloomsbury

Bob Jackson This is the story of the incredible life of Dr. Aidan MacCarthy (1913-95) the only person to have survived the two events that mark the beginning and end...

Author: Paul Finkleman Perhaps no other Supreme Court decision has had the political impact of Dred Scott v. Sandford . Using a variety of documents that reflect regional opinions and...

Author: Peter Eisner A conspiracy within the Vatican—to stop an outspoken PopeIn 1938, Pope Pius XI was the world's most prominent critic of Hitler and his rhetoric of ethnic "purity."...

Author: Michael Lewis Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky...

Author: Anna Reid Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from...

Author: Robert Coram John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the...