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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome
"Will undoubtedly shape our understanding of the global ecosystem for decades to come."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies A celebrated genome scientist …
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German …
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
A revelatory new account of the magus--the learned magician--and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe. In literary legend, Faustus is the …
The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
"As Kulikowski presents it, the end of the Roman Empire in the West was mean and dirty--and thoroughly Roman...In a brilliant tour d'horizon of the West from Ireland to the Black …
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Cundill Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year "Superbly original...Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness …
Time's Monster: How History Makes History
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year "Powerful and radically important."--Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement "Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has …
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year "Enthralling."―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books "This is a story not just about P tain but about war …
New Rome: The Empire in the East
A Times of London Book of the YearLonglisted for the Runciman Award "The most compelling fusion yet of narrative history with the recent findings of environmental research and …