Reaktion Books

An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction since 1985, Reaktion now produces around 90 new titles each year, and has nearly 1000 titles in print. Their list ranges widely across art and visual culture, Asian culture, biography, food history, general history, music, natural history, philosophy, politics and popular science.

Their series include: Animal, short natural and cultural histories of individual animals, Edible, global histories of key food or drink ingredients, Critical Lives, concise critical biographies of key cultural figures, Renaissance Lives, lively studies of the artistic and intellectual figures who made the modern world, and Lost Civilizations, that explores the rise, fall, and after life, of ancient cultures. ¹