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Hans Sloane was a young doctor from Northern Ireland who made his way in London and eventually become physician to the king and much of ...
The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the ...
The first historical biography, for many decades, of Martin Luther (1483-1546), the rebellious monk who ushered in the modern world
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Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brunnhilde and Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor: these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval ...
Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of ...
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 ...
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