An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture

‘Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of Mediterranean - before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their great capital city was razed to the ground, burning for six days and nights, its inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved. This title charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World.

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.

In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering the...

Humans are the most migratory species of all land mammals. Migrants cuts through the toxic debates about refugees versus economic migrants to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.

A groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world.