An updated examination of human history in terms of the environment explores how nature has affected the growth of human civilization and how human civilization has affected nature, from the earliest hunter-gatherer groups to the present. Reprint.

Tell the story of gunpowder. The formula for gunpowder was discovered in China in 800 AD. Known as 'fire-drug', its origin was the alchemists' search for an immortality elixir, and it was initially a medicine not an explosive. For 400 years, the Chinese kept gunpowder to themselves, until a Mongol soldier leaked the secret to the Islamic world.

A unique and revelatory narrative marks a chronicle of the twentieth century, skirting a simple chronological account and centering around broad and important themes to show how the powerful few have dominated and oppressed the many. 10,000 first printing.

An objective, revisionist analysis of World War II is broken down into such categories as 'Mobilization,' 'Strategy,' and 'Technology,' and provides an often startling mix of facts and statistics. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: It was the year of the glorious Battle of Britain, of the heroic evacuation of Dunkirk. It was the time when the mighty British empire declared its intention to fight the Nazis―alone if necessary―to the bitter end. It was, as Churchill dubbed it, Britain's "Finest Hour...read more

Explores how nature has affected the growth of human civilization and vice versa, from the earliest hunter-gatherer groups to the present (view table of contents)

Product Description: ¿Son exclusivamente contemporáneos los gravísimos problemas a los que se enfrenta el mundo de hoy? Para responder a esta pregunta, Clive Ponting ofrece un enfoque distinto de la historia: en lugar de centrarse en los acontecimientos políticos se ocupa de las fuerzas fundamentales que han cambiado el mundo que nos rodea y en las consecuencias que han ejercido nuestras acciones...read more

Product Description: Britain has one of the most extensive systems controlling the flow of information of any Western democracy. In this book Britain Clive Ponting discusses the passing of the 1911 and 1920 Acts, and famous prosecutions brought under these Acts including Compton Mackenzie, the "Crossman Diaries", Sarah Tisdall, "Spycatcher" and Ponting himself...read more

Product Description: (The author looks at antiquated systems of organization at Whitehall and examines ways to reform it. He suggests changing the structure and size of the Civil Service and making Whitehall more accountable to Parliament and the public)