A strikingly different take on world history, from the former editor-in-chief ofThe Guinness EncyclopediaConventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the d
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, Polit
People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To rem
