On a chilly day in late May, 1918, American troops went into battle in the World War I for the first time - a gripping new history tells the story

Now in paperback: a fascinating history of mankind's interactions with the most famous volcano in the world

The pioneering English Egyptologist William Bankes gets a smart and vivacious new biography

In Florence of the 1490s, a ranting Dominican friar picked a fight with the wrong Pope and lost badly. A new I Tatti volume translates the bickering before the bonfire.

In the wake of the First World War, unimaginable energies were unleashed upon the societies of the Western world. A fascinating new book attempts to assess the results.

The quintessential modern classic of gardening-literature gets a very nice reprint

A nature enthusiast looks at the countless little lives taking place on his small rural French meadow-farm

During the Italian Renaissance, one enterprising autodidact took it upon himself to track down and transcribe as many inscriptions from the ancient world as he could find

A noted Israeli scholar and 'refusnik' writes a reserved and thorough history of the occupied territories

The popular Facebook-poster Jeff Nunokawa now has a book collecting his highlights

The firebrand preacher and founder of the Presbyterian denomination is the subject of a masterful new biography

A former British White House correspondent looks back half a century at the two titans who ruled a now-vanished Washington

Religion and science - the so-called "non-overlapping magisteria" - are actually deeply adversarial, writes "Why Evolution is True" author Jerry Coyne

The US Constitution - the oldest in the world - gets a comprehensive new biography