A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions.

In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes distort theology as they preach Slav Christian supremacy and drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.

Combining historical research with vivid present-day reportage, The Baton and the Cross explores the impact the Church is having on millions of lives - from the tower blocks of big...

Unlock the secrets of a fascinating civilizations. This introductory guide takes you on a journey through a land where pyramids rise against the desert sky, pharaohs rule with divine authority and gods and goddesses walk among mortals. Discover the key events, people and trivia you need to know to understand this remarkable period of history.

There are few people in history who are instantly recognisable by their silhouette - Marie Antoinette would have to count among them - the very name conjures up a vibrant pastel-coloured world of excess, filled with satin shoes, rustling silks, gravity-defying hairstyles, decadent macarons, delicious intrigue and then, of course, bloody Revolution.

The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse. With the growing instability of the Megamachine in the 21st century, new dangers open up as well as new possibilities for sys...

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the Pr...

Ten zuidwesten van Hoek van Holland, waar niet lang geleden nog meeuwen foerageerden boven het water van de Noordzee, ligt nu nieuw land, met spoor- en waterwegen en twee hypermoderne containerterminals. Dit nieuwe land is Maasvlakte 2, een project waar meer dan vijftien jaar van besluitvorming aan voorafging. Maasvlakte 2 is een voortzetting van eerdere havenuitbreidingen die Rotterdam na de Tweede Wereldoorlog tot de grootste haven ter wereld maakten. Lobby for Land beschrijft hoe het polit...

Tannenberg; looking back, this town and battle symbolise an atypicalepisode in the First World War: the war of movement. In reality thewar quickly turned into a trench war, such as we knew it in the West.With the battle at Tannenberg and the ones that followed, which all hada quite positive outcome for Germany, Ludendorff had left his mark. is untimately brought the duo Von Hindenburg - Ludendorff to theabsolute military top of Germany. As from 1917 they, together with theemperor, dictated th...