This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to consolidate new managerial hierarchies in the region.

A major new reappraisal of the life and character of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his defining role in shaping the modern state of Turkey

The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.

A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was for maintaining Athenian self-identity. But her famous book left many questions unanswered. In answering them, this volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.

This atlas takes us on an exploration of the world, to encounter some of the brilliant and more obscure civilizations that have shaped history.

Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures. Following the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 the Western world was very concerned about the impact of nuclear war. This book reflects on the consequences at that time from a number of different angles.