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The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.
On 29 March 1849, the ...
"Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity." --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a ...
In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible - a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages ...
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century". The Russian ...
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change
First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning ...
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 ...
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 ...
'Magisterial' Observer
'Riveting' Sunday Times
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 ...
Poised between earth and heaven, the material and the spiritual, burial places are amongst the most important sites ever built.
Man is the only animal ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel ...
The Last Waltz tells the tale of two waltz kings. It is the intriguing story of two generations of the Viennese family that produced some ...
A rich and imaginative discovery of how ink has shaped culture and why it is here to stay.
A rich and imaginative discovery of how ...
