Nature's greatest success

how plants evolved to exploit humanity

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force-and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in ...

Mummified

the stories behind Egyptian mummies in museums

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums. We all know what a mummy is - or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and French museums ...

Strike

labor, unions, and resistance in the Roman Empire

From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices-and their labor-acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to ...

Vergil

the poet's life

The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's first media celebrity, a living legend. But ...

Ramesses the Great

Egypt's king of kings

Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat-the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh ...

Horace

poet on a volcano

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to ...

Debating medieval Europe

the central and later Middle Ages, c.1050-c.1450

Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the historical accounts provided by other ...

The world at first light

a new history of the Renaissance

A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at ...

900 Conclusions

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 100 )

A groundbreaking edition of controversial theses proposed by the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, had ambitions in line with his talents, especially in philosophical theology. His boldest venture urged Christians ...

The dreadful history and judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer

the life and times of an early German revolutionary

How did the son of a coin-maker from central Germany, Thomas Müntzer, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared revolutionaries in early modern Europe? Andrew Drummond charts the life and times of the man Martin Luther denounced as ...

Moral abdication

how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel against Palestinians after Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023 ...

Fascist Yoga

grifters, occultists, white supremacists, and the new order in wellness

'Anything Stewart Home writes intrigues me... He turns things upside down and shakes them up' - Lynne Tillman, author of Weird Fucks The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just ...

Alfred Dreyfus

the man at the center of the affair

On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death to Judas!" In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers new insight into Dreyfus himself-the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of ...

Christopher Hill

the life of a radical historian

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. While his career brought many of ...

What is ancient history?

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters-and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history-obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused ...

Los irresponsables

Una historia de poder, codicia y falso idealismo

El libro que Mark Zuckerberg trató de silenciar... Y probablemente con buen criterio. Sarah Wynn Williams, una joven diplomática neozelandesa, decidió en 2009 dar un giro a su carrera y postularse a un trabajo en Facebook, la empresa que por aquel entonces prometía cambiar el ...

Sekigahara 1600: el camino hacia la unificación del Japón samurái

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 77, año 2025)

De los tres unificadores de Japón, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi y Tokugawa Ieyasu, fue este último quien supo combinar el genio militar y político con la visión para establecer un legado duradero. Tras morir Hideyoshi en 1598, con Japón enfrascado en la costosa invasión de ...

Viaje por el Antiguo Egipto

Luxor, Tebas, Edfú… estos y otros muchos lugares del Antiguo Egipto todavía nos hacen soñar por su grandeza arquitectónica y por su halo de misterio, así como imaginarse navegando por el Nilo en la época de los faraones hacia Abu Simbel o hacia la Alejandría ...

Cuchillo

MEJOR LIBRO DE NO-FICCIÓN EXTRANJERA DEL AÑO SEGÚN EL MUNDO En estas desgarradoras nuevas memorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmente admirado, defensor de la libertad de expresión y ganador del Premio Booker de los Bookers y del Premio de La Paz de los Libreros alemanes, entre ...

El arte de pregonar

Una historia cultural de la venta ambulante

Desde antiguo, la plaza, la calle, el mercado, y aun las ferias y las fiestas, fueron los contextos habituales para comprar y vender todo tipo de género. Si los vendedores con puestos fijos podían o no pregonar su mercancía, dado que los clientes habituales conocían ...