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The definitive illustrated guide to the biggest FIFA World Cup ever is here! This is the essential companion to the world’s biggest sporting event. With 48 nations competing in 16 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico, the 2026 tournament promises to the most exciting, competitive and spectacular edition yet.
For over five centuries, the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It produced some of history’s greatest orators and statesmen, as well as some of its most debauched and corrupt tyrants. Shaping world affairs, the Roman Empire advanced economics, trade, archaeology and culture, but did so through conquest, bloodshed and enslavement of its enemies. This was the Roman way: vae victis, ‘woe to the conquered’. In this book, historian Jacob F. Field tells the entire story of Imperial Rome. Beginning with Julius Caesar first laying the foundations for the Empire right up to the collapse of Rome’s power, follow the journey of the Empire’s rise to unprecedented heights and learn what caused it to eventually fall. This accessible and entertaining history tells the stories of the greatest triumphs and most catastrophic disasters, the battles that defined the era, and what it was like to live under the Romans.
The friendship between Graham Greene and Kim Philby is one of the most mysterious of the twentieth century. Greene, the internationally lauded novelist who wrestled with the themes of faith and betrayal in his work. Philby, the British intelligence-officer-turned-spy for the Soviets, and one of the most reviled men of his era. The two men met as young MI6 officers in war-torn London, working together to defeat the Nazis. But after Greene suddenly resigned just days before D-Day, questions started to arise. He turned back to literature, using his experience in the intelligence services as a backdrop for ‘Our Man in Havana’ and the screenplay of ‘The Third Man’. Lurking within the pages lay suspicions of his friend, with characters and plots echoing Philby’s life. Robert Verkaik chronicles the relationship of these two giants of the 20th century, spanning the defeat of Nazism and the end of the Cold War, right up until Philby’s death in 1
Animation is a global artform, and ‘The Animation Atlas’ is your essential guide to this exciting, expansive world. From Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, authors and hosts of the ‘Ghibliotheque’ podcast, comes this whistle-stop tour through animated film history.
A photographic celebration of Ferrari’s production cars as photographed by Maggi & Maggi, across 60 years.
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