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Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and ...
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a ...
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the 'Milk of Paradise' for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer ...
It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an ...
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is ...
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things ...
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic ...
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying ...
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of ...
Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ...
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating ...
A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous ...
A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate ...
The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for ...
