Profile Books

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

By Richard Wrangham

Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

By Parks, Tim

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot

By Knapp, Professor Robert C.

Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World

By O'Shea, Stephen

The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple

By Demurger, Alain

The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order

By Smith, David

The Forbidden City

By Barme, Geremie

Van Gogh

By Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

By Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Politics: Ideas in Profile (Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas)

By Runciman, David

Women & Power: A Manifesto

By Beard, Professor Mary

Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows

By Hytner, Richard

Politics On The Couch

By Samuels, Andrew

INTO THE HEART OF THE MAFIA: A Journey Through the Italian South

By Lane, David

Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

By Clarke, Duncan

Sustainable Development

By Morris, Julian

The King's Cathedral: The ancient heart of Christ Church, Oxford

By Curthoys, Judith

Vesuvius: The most famous volcano in the world

By Darley, Gillian

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

By Everett, Daniel

At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise

By Brooks, Michael

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

By Mary Beard

Runaway World

By Giddens, Professor Anthony

The Idea of the Brain: A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Cobb, Professor Matthew

Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places

By Purseglove, Jeremy

The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage

By Holiday, Ryan

AFTER THE NEOCONS: America at the Crossroads

By Fukuyama, Francis

Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French

By Sothen, John von

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

By Tyldesley, Joyce

Ghost Stories: A Saga Magazine Collection

By Various

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

By Gawande, Atul