A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019
A thrilling history of the dramatic siege of Acre in 1291, the bloody climax to the two hundred years of the Holy Land Crusades
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial... Læs mere
A selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called "Treatise on Painting" but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources.
Now available in paperback, a glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller
An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important issue
A history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, this work surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change, and fail to change, and how an army's greatness depends on the way it exploits the past.