Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.

Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and ...

This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present.

The result is a new interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.This book offers the first comprehensive history of Ireland ...

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day.

Simple and accessible, this collection of inspiring, spiced dishes from all corners of the globe promises to be a book you will cook from again and again.

We make it-and are made by it. In Is the American Dream Killing You? Paul Stiles shows how the pressures of the market are causing undue stress in all our lives.

The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs.

HEALTHY EATING WITHOUT ANY OF THE HASSLE. The Batch Lady’s simple, freezable, portion-controlled recipes will save you time and money.

Accompanying a major new BBC series with David Attenborough, Life in Colour explores the fascinating story of how colour works in the natural world.