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Chris McManus uncovers the secrets of a collection of six thousand dusty old postcards which turned up in a forgotten cupboard in the Psychology Department of University College London...
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For much of history, philosophers and religious thinkers have believed there are absolute differences between humans and all other living things. Usually, only humans have been thought capable and ...
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Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (born 1899) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the mid-twentieth century ascendancy of Keynesian e...
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Organizations working to restore the environment and foster social justice collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This movement with no name, leader, or location is a creative expression of people's needs worldwide.
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An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.
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A cluster of five countries—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Cost Rica—are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations differ in their histories and politics, they...
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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This island was once a clearinghouse for importing slaves into the New World. It later became one of the world's few remaining bastions of Marxism, proclaiming socio-economic equality. In both form...
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Best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
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From the vogue for very young models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, childhood in America today is in precipitous decline. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Postman suggests that the divisions between childhood and adulthood are eroding under the...
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America's courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left's camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change, precisely what author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed, liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant position in the...
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Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
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Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this fascinating evocation of Elizabethan...
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith...
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Eyewitness 1920 - 1929 presents the history of the Twentieth Century, based on contemporary accounts of events as they happened, using BBC Archives.
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, wtitten by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
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The unique history of the Twentieth Century - 1990 to 1999.
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Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation.
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Germany is historically one of the most important of all nations. Since emerging from its days as a Roman province, Germany (including Prussia) has had a central role in European affairs. It has re...
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Adam Fowler explores the plight of thousands of captive elephants in Asia and their historic and changing relationship with man.
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First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches.
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Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
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The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
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An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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The World Cup is the largest sports event outside the summer Olympics: the progress of the 32 countries which qualify for the finals is watched by billions all over the globe.
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Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
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From the bestselling author of Hitler's Pope comes a gripping, in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences-then and now.
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The "isle of poets and scholars" has known almost constant warfare for centuries. In 1920, it was divided into North and South; yet this purely political solution left a religious and cultural schi...
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In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks.
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Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times.
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town...
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From bestselling author and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current and future power of the Latino vote in American politics.
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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
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This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.
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The Bestselling story of how one man's courage changed the course of history. 'A magnificent piece of popular history.' Independent On Sunday
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The political story the media was afraid to touch. The story of how the "Right" stole...
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Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story ...
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In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. This book by scientist and psychologist Drew Westen is a groundbreaking scientific investigation into how the mind works, how the brain works, and how it affects candidates winning and losing elections.
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What gives unelected judges the right to decide hot-button issues? Judges say it’s the Constitution. But law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law”...
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Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture. And with its emphasis on traditional values, military service, good manners, and small government, the South should certainly rise again.
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Using the first-hand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used...
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Of all Jane Austin's books Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel.
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Property fundamentally marks how we as individuals are related both to other individuals and to society at large. In its strongest form, property absolutely excludes others from possessing, using, ...
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Punishment is a harm or deprivation, imposed by a legitimate authority, based on a legitimate conviction of wrongdoing. In assessing guilt, considerations of intention, action and results are all r...
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In the flowery language of its era, this book details English customs and manners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including women's dress, propriety, and beauty aids, with ad...
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In this audio book based on his number one bestselling book, Dawkins presents a closely argued and intellectually exhilarating case for his radical Darwinian view of life on Earth.
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Recent events have made it clear that the Soviet Union is not a monolith; it's a collection of nationalities, many with serious objections to union. The demise of communism holds great promise and ...
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Volume 9 covers the years 1815 to 1837, describes a period of prosperity, wit and elegance as well as scandal, change and social ferment...
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The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful country that stands on the brink of the millennium.
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Passion and property in Manhatten.
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Narrated newspaper coverage from the time.
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones.
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Ancient and medieval awareness of electrical effects included lightning, electric fish, St. Elmo’s fire, the amber effect, and (esp. in early China) the lodestone (magnet). Plutarch explained the electric effect in terms of air displacement. The following chart shows a timeline of topics...
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The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
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Evans tells the epic story of the men and women who made America over two centuries.
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Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima. There are many notable events, from the Black Death, and Great Fire of London, to the American Civil War.
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In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity.
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Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in chic.
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Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird, or would, that is, if the novel were a true story..
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Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life. She takes us to schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries and records the events of the reign of Victoria...
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A detailed history behind the origins of the City of Virginia highlighting the roots of the area and other influences throughout the years...
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A blueprint to preserve and restore our country to its original intent.
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Lee Iacocca does not mince words, and in where have all the leaders gone? he offers his no-nonsense, straight-up assessments of the American politicians most likely to run for president in 2008.
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In 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-two comrades were captured by Barbary corsairs. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on Christendom.
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