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You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission ...
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever ...
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave ...
A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, Catherine mobilized support amongst the Russian nobles, playing off of her husband's increasing ...
What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What is it ...
'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph
'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
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'Utterly fascinating...I suspect that every historian of the period will regard it as indispensable to appreciating this extraordinary phase in our history.' John Simpson ...
In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits frontlines in Australia's climate wars - the ...
The civilizations of Greece and Rome that flourished in Mediterranean Europe did not develop in isolation. To their north, non-literate peoples inhabited river valleys, mountains ...
Excerpt from The Japs at Home These chapters have perhaps a chance of being fresh, for they were composed, not by the midnight oil, but ...
An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.
Since 1945, the US has justified ...
A breathtaking expose that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all ...
Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the ...
