A precise experimenter in the realm of “chymistry,” Newton put the riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation.

Part journalism, part history, this is an examination of how two former Soviet republics were brought into the conflict that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union.

This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam.

Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

The dramatization of Sir Thomas More's historic conflict with Henry VIII—a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that "challenges the mind, and, in the end, touches the heart" (New York ...

Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power.

Traces the origins of democratic government in England and the U.S. compares their approaches, and discusses elections and the philosophical background of political representation.

Previously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.

This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’.

In this comprehensive synthesis canvassing the peoples, economies, religion, languages, and political leadership of medieval Britain, Carpenter weaves together the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.