This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that spread out from the Mediterranean across Europe during the Roman Empire, offering a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.

A long-awaited visual memoir from a legend of popular culture, this is the first and only official book by Annie Lennox, one of the bestselling and most influential music and style icons of the last fifty years-destined to be the must-have title for music lovers and will command attention from fashion and photography worlds.

A remarkable, eyewitness-based, narrative on what actually occurred in the first year of the Great War around the globe.

Tracing Russia's story from the settlement of Kiev onwards, this title includes a chapter on the role of Putin and Medvedev, and their impact on Russia's economy, politics and its citizens.

An internationally bestselling new take on Pompeii and our relationship with the ancient world, from a world-leading archaeologist and director of the World Heritage Site.

Everybody knows they exist: the Cosa Nostra, the Medellin Cartel, New York's Five Families, China's tongs. This book asks the question: how have mafias helped define the modern world?

An engrossing history of the pivotal year when the future of England secured.

To tell the story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan through the chaotic and seismic events of 1947 and the experiences of the people who lived through them.