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The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and ...
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the ...
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials ...
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire
Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar ...
Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists ...
In 1979, seemingly overnight-moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world-Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times ...
This book presents a critical reflection on the major armed conflicts that occurred during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Conflicts ...
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of ...
Wellcome Prize winner and National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon brings his sharp eye and fierce compassion to stories from all over the world
In ...
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders ...
We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat. In this new edition ...
