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The Hero with a Thousand Faces - The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's revolutionary ...

How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave in...

Why The West Rules - For Now - The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundre...

The Finest Illustrated Maps of Hungary, 1528-1895 - DVD INCLUDED

Maps are true reflections of history. They offer snapshots of conditions in the region they deal with at a given moment. The present volu...

Ecclesiastical Treasures in Hungary

In Hungary there are more than thirty monastic collections that survived the vicissitudes of history throughout the centuries. This title...

Kéklő hegyek alatt lótuszok tava - Lotus Lake under Blue Mountains - Tanulmányok Bethlenfalvy Géza tiszteletére - Essays in honour of Géza Bethlenfalvy

Ezzel az ünnepi kötettel magyar és külföldi indológusok és orientalisták szeretnék kifejezni tiszteletüket Bethlenfalvy Géza oktatói és t...

Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World

Originally published: London: Elliot and Thompson Limited, 2015, with the subtitle Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know abo...

The Interpretation of Cultures

"Preface to the 2000 edition": pages x-xiii.

From Here to Eternity - Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she ...

The Danube - A Cultural History

The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest, it tou...

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as 'The War of Independence', but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the `...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

With a new introduction from the author, this is the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer prize-winning story of how the atomic bomb ...

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels - How Human Values Evolve

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most pe...

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are t...

The Everyday Life of the Emperor - Francis Joseph and his Imperial Court

The Court in Vienna under Emperor Francis Joseph was not only Europe's most illustrious and refined, it was also a huge economic enterpri...

Mercenaries and Crusaders

Memoria Hungariae 15. A Mercenaries and Crusaders c. 2022 nyarán a Debreceni Egyetemen megrendezett nemzetközi középkortörténeti konfe...

From Here to Eternity - Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From...

The Immortality Key - The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the or...

The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical...

A History of the World in 100 Objects

A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter im...

Muqaddimah - An Introduction to History

The Muqaddimah is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the renowned fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn ...

The Nineties - A Book

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—...

Congo

An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory ...

How the World Made the West - A 4,000-Year History

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that def...

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A triumph' Guardian'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic ...

Russia Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage c...

Turkey Under Erdogan - How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

Dimitar Bechev traces the political trajectory of Erdogan's populist regime, from the era of reform and prosperity in the 2000s to the ef...

Post-Socialism and Globalization

Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different

This collection of profiles (including Rimbaud, Frank Ocean, Barack Obama and more) offers a way through the connected problem of a lack ...

Pathogenesis - How germs made history

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating...

skoda - A Car That Made History

Es ist eine der faszinierendsten Erfolgsgeschichten in der Welt der Technik: skoda verbindet die Tradition einer hundertjährigen Fahrzeug...

Winter Uniforms of the German Army - Army, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS

Comprising 448 pages, this illustrated book is the first comprehensive reference work covering winter uniforms used by the German Army, A...

Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

A NEW STATESMENBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ¿`A lasting work of social history¿ THE TIMES `A genuinely new history of our nation¿ DAN JONES `Thi...

Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes

Floriography - An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers

A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. ...

The Battle for Syria - International Rivalry in the New Middle East

Death - A Graveside Companion

A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to ...

Great Cities - The Stories Behind the World's most Fascinating Places

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's globa...

Conspiracy - A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lie...

The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023

The World - A Family History

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told throu...

The Arabs - A History

Eugene Rogan is author of the bestselling The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. He is professor of moder...

Rain of Ash - Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

"A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma d...

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...

The Water Kingdom

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factio...

Korea - A History

While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world...

Destiny Disrupted - A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

A sweeping narrative history by the acclaimed author of "West of Kabul, East of New York" illuminates how Muslims have seen the history o...

Empires of the Sky - Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky-a story that ended wi...

Legendary Children - The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the po...

On the Trail of the Indo-Europeans: From Neolithic Steppe Nomads to Early Civilisations

For more than 3000 years, Indo-European languages have been spoken from India through Persia and into Europe. Where are the origins of th...

Peril

The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American hi...

Tunisia - An Arab Anomaly / Foreword by Lisa Anderson

The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Ja...

A History of the Arab Peoples

A fully updated, new edition of the ever-popular classic of modern history. First published in 1991, this edition also covers recent even...

The Bin Laden Papers - How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

Nelly Lahoud dives into Usama Bin Laden's files and meticulously distills the nearly 6,000 pages of Arabic private communications. For th...

The Eye of the Master - A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

A ¿social¿ history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collec...

The Ottomans - Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly dif...

Lakota America - A New History of Indigenous Power

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Time...

Ten Cities that Led the World - From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, rev...

The Chinese Myths - A Guide to the Gods and Legends

The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese...

After the Fall - Being American in the World We've Made

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be ...