Features correspondence between Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and includes various letters and family photographs. This book offers insights into N...
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes o...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee, written by Jared Diamond, is a comprehensive study of human behaviour and its origins. This book analyses the relatio...
His principal interest was in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revolution, and where he h...
In 1965 Ernesto Guevara, one of the heroes of the Cuban Revolution, known throughout the world as "el Che", vanished. He eventually surfaced in the ne...
From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.
The major shifts in global po...
A fascinating account of the adventures of Marco Polo, who embarked on a two-year journey from China to reach Venice, his homeland via Hormuz. Immediately after...
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means fo...
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creat...
Their achievement provided one answer to the many questions about high-altitude survival which had been asked from the beginning of the century
Their climb w...
Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 per cent ove...
This stunning new film brings to life the true story of Vassili Zaitsez, a Russian sniper credited with over 140 kills during the Battle of Stalingrad, as docum...