Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the emergence of Homo sapiens. Arabia is one of the hottest...

From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started travelling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers or fathers. Very little about them is recorded from...

This is the story of the women from the Indian Subcontinent who fought against British imperial power from the 1600s until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. It begins by looking at the...

In this book, Ian Williams tells the terrifying story of China’s vampire economy and the single-minded and ruthless policy of the Party to bend economics and business to its own will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinping’s ambition of China becoming the world’s pre-eminent economic, technological and military power.

A rare first hand account of the US withdrawal from Kabul through the eyes of a civilian.Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was...

‘The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan is a tour de force – combining erudite analysis, historical research, atmospheric story-telling, page-turning prose and above all, profound passion.’ - Sir Nicholas...

When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of...

A young female Marine in Afghanistan struggles to survive in a hostile environment—both inside and outside the wire.