From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England' - in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story[...]

Ian Crofton, former editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia, has written a wide range of other general reference books, including Philosophy (Teach Yourself Instant Reference) and Science Without the Boring Bits.
With "Big Ideas in Brief," Crofton provides an accessible tour of 200 key con[...]

Big Ideas in Brief provides an accessible and easily understood tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects - Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and the Arts. A series of short and lively artic[...]

Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact: Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarras[...]

Forlaget skriver: Der findes ørkener på alle kontinenter lige fra Afrikas solsvedne hjerte til Nordkinas kolde sletter. Ørkener er tit varme om dagen og kolde om natten. Men der findes også ørkener, der er iskolde døgnet rundt - f.eks. er Antarktisk og dele af[...]