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A richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 ce, highlighting how the movement of people ...
The first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical ...
Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven't
Over the past century, Asia has been ...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war ...
In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far ...
Take a trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne ...
Remember loading up the back of the car and heading away with the family over the ...
Many of us gain inspiration, solace, beauty and a sense of wonder from our interactions with nature, and writers have long plumbed and explored these ...
A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
In ...
Documentary photography offers one way of looking, but this type of looking is also about feeling. It is a style of making photographs designed to ...
The twenty intriguing journeys and routes featured in this book range from distances of a few miles to great adventures across land, sea, air and ...
For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months ...
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future.
Aarathi Prasad's Silk is ...
A leading scientist's spirited, confident guide to the way our immune system protects us-most of the time
Humans may be the most disease-ridden animals ...
An in-depth analysis of the air conflict between Russia and Ukraine, exploring the failures and successes of both sides' air forces and their impact on ...
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's ...
