A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought

\'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world\' Hannah DawsonWe have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism?

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\'The book that we all need\' Esther Perel\'A road map for all of us who seek true intimacy\' Gwyneth Paltrow\'A revolutionary guide to happy, thriving couplehood\' Lori GottliebNot much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness-and there\'s also not much that\'s more important. At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society

The ukiyo-e masters are brought together in a volume that illustrates Japan’s “floating world” between the 17th and 19th century. he so-called Edo period (1603–1868) was extremely productive for Japan from a historical and artistic standpoint; later its influence would extend beyond the archipelago, as far as the West, where it gave rise to a real passion for Japanese aesthetics and culture. The term

The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution. This is the definitive way to discover the real, modern Europe progressively unfolding, because looking back to the past reveals more about our future than we ever expected, and only

THE INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK\'A superb survey of planetary politics\'The Sunday TimesSpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions.

\"A NATURAL STORYTELLER\" Mary Roach \"BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING\" Matthew Gavin Frank

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out.

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet. Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere.

Revised and updated fourth edition. The world today rests on increasingly unstable fault lines.

\'The Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?\' Gabor Mate M.D., author, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction \'We need, now more than ever, to figure out how to make all kinds of connections.

We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts.

A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia\'s complex past, present, and future. For Wade Davis, Colombia was the first country that captured his heart and gave him license to be free.

\'Powerful [and] intelligent\' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN \'Superbly researched and written\' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post America\'s political system isn\'t broken. The truth is scarier: it\'s working exactly as designed.

From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky.

What do we really know about immigration? Immigration is one of the most controversial issues these days.

A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century.

\'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful\' - Bill Gates An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism.

A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were

\"Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you.