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'The art historian Jack Hartnell tells this extraordinary story in his wonderfully rich study of the Middle Ages ... This beautifully illustrated book succeeds brilliantly in ...
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical ...
A very enjoyable and astringent account of the events that made 1968 and its aftermath so important
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Following the success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during the Second World War, he was the obvious candidate for ...
Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain ...
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Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future ...
Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they ...
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For as long as people have traveled to ...
From the emergence of hominids millions of years ago, up to the present day, this book is a huge compilation of facts, features, and images ...
A magical, wise and beguiling history of all the ways in which our world has been made by the horse.
The relationship between horses and ...
