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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading,...

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and...

From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the...

Nach jahrelanger Funkstille erhält Dr. Watson den Brief einer gewissen Marjorie Beaumont, die ihn und Holmes dringend um Hilfe ersucht. Angeblich trachtet eine religiöse Gemeinschaft ihrem Onkel nach dem Leben und peinigt ihn mit Drohbriefen. Nachdem eines Nachts eine mysteriöse Gestalt im Haus des Onkels gesehen wird und ebenso spurlos wieder verschwindet, beschließt Holmes, den vermeintlichen Tatort bei Nacht einmal genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen ...