Hedy Lamarr was a rare kind of woman. She was not only a strikingly beautiful actress who took Hollywood by storm in the 1940s, but she was also an inventorーand not just any inventor. Hedy Lamarr's work with radio frequencies is credited with paving the way for Wi-Fi. It seems that the greatest bomb that this bombs...

〓 Explore the fascinating and turbulent period of European history in The Dark Ages by Charles Oman. This comprehensive work delves into the formative years of the Middle Ages, spanning from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD to the early medieval period in 918 AD. ✨ Oman masterfully chronicles the key events,...

**'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer 'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from one of the country's top foreign correspondents.** With all...

This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the intellectual crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It analyses how an upsurge in anti-Semitism and discourses of exclu...

Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: capital markets, labor markets, industrial relations and the welfare state. Assessing its scope an...

Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global climate change. The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this really new? Past societies and ancient civilisations have alway...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations." This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically different groups and associations of writers and artists that had been common during the 1920s, and instead, led to the...

This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon. Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long span of time as to...

In 1066, England was in a state of turmoil. King Edward the Confessor had died, leaving behind no heirs and no clear line of succession. It is said that he had promised the English throne to his distant cousin, William, the Duke of Normandy, but after Edward's death, Harold Godwinson took the throne, claiming that t...

The Zapotecs formed one of the most important of the pre-Columbian civilizations. For one thousand years, their main city of Monte Albán was one of the largest and most sophisticated in Mesoamerica. Building this city was an astonishing engineering featーit involved flattening a hill in the center of the Oaxaca Vall...

Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan’s ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political order dominated by military power. Overcoming personal and political setbacks, Teika and his allies championed a new style of poetry that managed to innovate conceptually ...

There are notorious figures in history who have withstood the test of time, and then there is Hannibal Barca. This man stands in a unique category of his own because the name of Hannibal Barca not only went down in history; it changed the course of it. This headstrong North African leader did the impossible. He not ...

〓 Step into the extraordinary world of Virginia Woolf with The Complete Works, a comprehensive collection of her literary masterpieces. This definitive eBook gathers all her iconic works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves, as well as her groundbreaking essays and short stories. Dive...

〓 Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking works of James Joyce, one of the most innovative and influential authors of the 20th century. The Complete Collection offers an extraordinary journey through his literary masterpieces, featuring iconic works such as Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”ーDaniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow “I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A tru...

Une synthèse globale par un spécialiste incontesté. On connaît la sentence de Churchill : " La Russie est un rébus enveloppé de mystère au sein d'une énigme. " Son histoire résulte d'une longue construction de plus d'un millénaire, élaborée sous deux dynasties, celles des Riourikides et des Romanov, avant un XXe siè...