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Part memoir, part biography, part cultural meander, an irresistibly intelligent literary walk through the lives of wandering women- about how, by putting one foot in ...
In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town ...
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman ...
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific ...
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ...
In this gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psychology of the war criminals at Nuremberg
When the ashes had ...
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their ...
Pigs unite and divide people, but why?
Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and ...
The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an ...
The fun way to research your family history Genealogy For Dummies, 8th Edition covers everything you need to know about starting a genealogical research project-including ...
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to ...
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
