A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.
A return by essential film critic Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism.
A beautifully illustrated celebration of this stylish, practical and important accessory.
Traces the history of ideas about dragons, from ancient times to Game of Thrones and beyond.
A history of the fabled heroes and miracles of the Middle Ages.
Drawing on the author's deep knowledge of the history and ecology of trees, Trees in Art shows that we can learn much about ourselves from the art of trees.
Part memoir, part manifesto, this is a celebration of the bicycle by French anthropologist Marc Augé.
A beautifully illustrated, authoritative overview of humankind’s fascination with the ringed planet Saturn.
A highly original and wide-ranging study of ‘the end’ in art.
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine examines the foodways of the Ottoman Empire as they changed and evolved over more than five centuries.
A brilliant new account of maverick French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
A fresh and exciting reappraisal of folklore outlaw Robin Hood.