A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. ...więcej »
Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. The movements associated with his name have lent hope to many victims of tyranny and aggression but have also ...więcej »
Why do we care what others think?What keeps us bound together?How does the brain shape our behaviour?Bruce Hood is an award-winning psychologist who has researched and taugh...więcej »
What makes Greek and Roman literature great?How has classical literature influenced Western culture?What did Greek and Roman authors learn from each other?Richard Jenkyns is...więcej »
What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sw...więcej »
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformatio...więcej »
Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy, which The Times Literary Supplement named...więcej »
Where do our ideas about politics come from?What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?How should we exercise power?Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, ...więcej »