Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the ‘Little Ice Age’.

The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women - and then won back again.

Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstrous temptresses who use their charms to entice men to their doom.

But if we go back 4,000 years, the roots of these demons lie in horrific creatures like Lamashtu, a lion-headed Mesopotamian demon who strangled infants and murdered pregnant w...

Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth’s awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. ‘Stands comparison with Sapiens… Thrilling’ Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.

Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so significant and so fascinating. It is a self-made country, the Dutch national character shaped by the on...

Danseres Lin Jaldati, de artiestennaam van Rebekka (Lien) Brilleslijper (1912-1988), groeit op in de vooroorlogse Amsterdamse Jodenbuurt met zijn armoede, maar ook zijn levendigheid en geborgenheid. De Berlijnse musicus Eberhard Rebling (1911-2008) is ooggetuige van de opkomst van Hitlers Derde Rijk.

De twee beginnende kunstenaars ontmoeten elkaar eind jaren dertig in Nederland en worden verliefd. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog gaan ze in het verzet, net als veel van hun Joodse en communistische v...