Author: Laura Spinney. InPale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. Title: Pale Rider.
What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again. Author: Laura Spinney. Title: Proto. How did this happen?. Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli. His introduction discusses Machiavelli's life and reputation, and explores the historical background to the work. Niccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft,The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.