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A vivid and illuminating new history-separate fact from fiction, myth from legend-exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of ...
The third volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times number-one bestseller tackles the question of the ...
Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards
Runner-up, 2024 History category, San Francisco Book Festival
For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to ...
A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic
'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson
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The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous ...
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.
In her previous two ...
Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for ...
Discover the history and culture of over 50 of the most fearsome mythical creatures to capture the human imagination in this startlingly illustrated compendium. Accompanied ...
Were the signs that Putin is a ruthless dictator there all along? How should we deal with President Xi of China? Given the world seems ...
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.
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Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine brought large-scale warfare ...
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.'
Timothy Snyder #1 New York ...
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years
In this paradigm-shifting global ...
