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Welcome to the world of Frantz Schmidt: citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer of many hund...

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Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of...

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On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle – and very likely a new kind ...

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* The fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson spans the years 1958 to 1964, ...

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What can maths tell us about sports? 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport sheds light on the...

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1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into...

* The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. * The world has become a...

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In December 2009 the US government launched an air strike against the tiny Yemeni village of al-Majalah where al-Qaeda m...

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What does it mean to be English?* For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the poli...

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* Beyond the Corporation is a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, i...

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Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of con...

In How Pleasure Works, the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fu...

For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. As citizens took ...

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'For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, empti...

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'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journe...

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, ...

'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to The Fate of the Empire, s...

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* 'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journ...

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'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-v...

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Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as a...