Reaktion Books

Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient trade routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions. Modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse...

An entertaining and comprehensive guide to the male sexual organ written for men and women, gay and straight alike....

Jeremy Black i examines how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early modern period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics....

Charts the evolving perception of allergy, from a rare and non-fatal condition one hundred years ago to a widespread, potentially fatal, and lucrative clinical specialism today...

The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions, has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria and smallpox have been among the largest, most costly programmes...