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An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond ...
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A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later ...
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muammad to the birth of the modern era.
This book describes and ...
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare ...
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In this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man ...
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A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one ...
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An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history
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