The World's Most Prestigious Prize
This is a fascinating book by the former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute giving the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize from its…… Read More »
Category: History
THE SECULAR ENLIGHTENMENT
This is a very erudite and authoritative study of the 18th-century European Enlightenment, taking readers on a tour including London, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh, Vienna and…… Read More »
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
One might expect Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by historian Yuval Noah Harari (YNH) to cover less than philosopher Ken Wilber's "A Brief History…… Read More »
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
The history of this subject is nothing if not complex, with an interweaving between witchcraft and magic, both theoretical and practical, manipulative and defensive. The…… Read More »
The Enlightenment
Understanding the Enlightenment is a key aspect of our intellectual and cultural history, which this book does superbly, not only in terms of the 18th…… Read More »
What is Intellectual History?
This subject covers such a wide interdisciplinary field that it almost defies definition and is associated in the popular mind primarily with philosophy and political…… Read More »
BLACK EARTH - the Holocaust as History & Warning
As its title implies, this is a very dark book about a very dark subject; the Holocaust and its causes. Snyder's innovative theory is that…… Read More »
Veiled Warriors
This brilliant and highly informative book describes the conditions of Allied nurses during the First World War both sequentially and on the different fronts, including…… Read More »
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England
Sir Keith Thomas is the author of the seminal Religion and the Decline of Magic, which he published nearly 40 years ago. His period has…… Read More »
The Renaissance - A Very Short Introduction
Another fine addition to this excellent series. Brotton begins his book with a discourse on Hans Holbein's painting of The Ambassadors, where the objects depicted…… Read More »