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Why is the world the way it is? What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution, influenced the ...
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the ...
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How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order
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Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and do ...
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well ...
Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its ...
Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to ...
'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand ...
Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over ...
'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme.
'In a troubled world where many ...
Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated and ultimately declined, and discusses the ...
