Humanities - Page 179

American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next...

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Music and Human Flourishing

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer,...

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Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette

A major new biography of Antoine Barnave—the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutiona...

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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbur...

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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're fa...

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Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has be...

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Into the Dark: What Darkness Is and Why It Matters

Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and in...

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Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders

A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the...

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The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations

A new history of the Etruscans, a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. The E...

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Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings

The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for th...

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Phoenicians among Others: Why Migrants Mattered in the Ancient Mediterranean

Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterr...

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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

** TO BE READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK FROM 30 JAN 2023 **'As much le Carré as it is Hidden F...

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The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax

Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential – and...

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What's Cooking in Kremlin: A History of Modern Russia Through the Kitchen Door

'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the bes...

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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

“The definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization…A vital account, based on...

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