Juan Martinez & Oscar Martinez 
Hollywood Kid 

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change …

"The Martyrs of Science" is a historical paintings written by means of David Brewster, a Scottish physicist and inventor, within the nineteenth century. The book presents a compelling …

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American Social thought in the 20th century. Ribeiro was an anthropologist, ind …

”A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive” Simon Schama, Financial Times Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent th …

I”m A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad Ali”s story is told b …

”We both knew it was up to him to lead. He took his time … I had never been so consciously vulnerable in my life. And now I had to enter a place where I trusted this man completely. Trusted him no …

Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility. He introduced English education to India, creating a class of westernised Indians often reviled as ‘Macaulay’s children’, but today many …

”A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.” – Al Capone Featured in Vice A man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli”s career flourished for …

Edward the Elder succeeded his father Alfred the Great to the kingdom of Wessex, but was largely overlooked by his contemporaries (at least in terms of the historical record) and to a greater or …

On 7 November 1938, an impoverished seventeen-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, obsessed with Nazi persecution of his family in Germany, brooding on revenge – and his own insignificance – bought a …