A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future

A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows that virtual spaces perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, transform play i...

The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years