All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine... Zobraziť viac
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed... Zobraziť viac
Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the 18th century in England. His reputation depends... Zobraziť viac
Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination,... Zobraziť viac
Straightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'... Zobraziť viac
Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military intelligence broke into the Democratic National Committee network, grabbed what it could... Zobraziť viac
Vydatni ukrayinky XX stolittya chasto lyshayutʹsya nepomitnymy. Pro dolyu deyakykh heroyinʹ tsiyeyi knyzhky khtosʹ, mozhlyvo, pochuye vpershe, odnak yikhnyu rolʹ v ukrayinsʹkiy istoriyi ne varto prymenshuvaty... Zobraziť viac
At the end of our millennium, historiography has experienced a renaissance... Zobraziť viac
Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected and the commander vows to capture the fugitives within seven days. Six are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' ... Zobraziť viac
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia... Zobraziť viac
Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic... Zobraziť viac
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today... Zobraziť viac
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century... Zobraziť viac
An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world... Zobraziť viac
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, ... Zobraziť viac
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, ... Zobraziť viac
Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal the craft, labour and industry that create the clothes... Zobraziť viac
Behind every great king stands a queen. And behind every queen, the whole court watches on... Over the years of his reign, six different women took their place beside King Henry VIII of England as his wife and queen... Zobraziť viac
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery... Zobraziť viac
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending acco Zobraziť viac
