“Although this book is about what we cannot know, it is also very important to understand what we do know. On this journey to the limits of knowledge, we wil...

Lord John Clayton is his name, inherited from his father. Tarzan - that's the name the jungle knows him by. A jungle for which it doesn’t matter how much mon...

For three decades, until 1986, Markus Wolf headed one of the most effective intelligence services in the world - the intelligence service of the German Democ...

This book was prepared by the University of Oxford and is a deep, serious and at the same time fascinating study of the centuries-old history of the crusadin...

Marcus Chown is a British scientist, journalist and writer, one of the best popularizers of science today. Few people can talk about the most complex scienti...

Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticize...

This maritime history “from below” exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall sh...

In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked deat...

In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and...

After the disappearance of the legendary dwarven hero Tungdil at the Battle of the Black Gorge, the sun rose and fell behind the mountains thousands of times...

No sooner had dad arrived home in his new car than Ossi, Veino and Anna-Marie announced that they were going to pick mushrooms! Neighbor Mr. Trubkela and his...