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A suspenseful, authoritative account of how the battle against a mid-century polio epidemic sparked a revolution in medical care.
Americans knew polio as the 'summer ...
Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats ...
The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this ...
The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in ...
A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune
In Regency England the ...
This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role ...
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live
"[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries ...
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the ...
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner ...
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI
"The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI ...
As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal ...
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches ...
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries ...
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day
In this riveting ...
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium ...
