FearIt's been said that, after 9 11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid 19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces perhaps the driving force of world history: fear of God, of famine, war, disease, poverty, and other people. In 'Fear', Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change.

But when he arrives

Joining just after the 9/11 attacks

Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants

Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life

It was a time of climate change and colonialism

This authoritative text recreates the battle for Stalingrad that became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome and vicious war for the Eastern front

'Deeply engrossing

Alice Roberts not only reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants

is ambushed and massacred by a small army of mercenaries dressed like Hell's Angels

the loss of innocence

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome

If he succeeds