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The Flying Man: Aristotle, and the Philosophers of the Golden Age of Islam
Embark on an extraordinary journey with Dr. Akbar Ahmed
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The Gallic War
The only chronicle by an ancient general of his own campaigns, this historical treasure is also a work of profound literary merit. Julius Caesar’s fascinating...
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (PREMIUM EDITION)
A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empirepodcast
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
‘One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written’ Thomas Piketty
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.
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The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon
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The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Conflict in the Middle East
Rogerson's timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies and Shiite Iran. To understand these, he suggests, we must understand the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his son Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.
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The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate (PREMIUM ED)
A powerful history of the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate.
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene—the killing age.
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander (PREMIUM ED)
One of the world’s leading Egyptologists tells the rich and fascinating story of ancient Egypt’s last dynasty.
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds." ―Orhan Pamuk, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
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The Man Who Stopped the Sultan
An extraordinary account of how one man defied the most powerful ruler of his age and in doing so changed the course of European history.
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The Map of Knowledge (PREMIUM ED)
After the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost....
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The Men Who Ruled India (PREMIUM ED)
The man who ruled India is a masterly distillation of Philip Mason's two classics, The Founders and The Guardians which were written soon after British withdrawal from the sub continent, when the sight and sound and smells of an area the size of Europe were still fresh in memory.
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