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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature ...
A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book ...
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that ...
A rich, complex and absorbing subject, it's hard to find the history of the twentieth century in one accessible book... until now.
From two ...
A grisly and gruesome guide to history's most shocking and macabre moments...
Horrible, spine-chilling and deeply fascinating, this book details the vile history of ...
Big ideas, simply explained
Welcome to the complete history of the world. From the dawn of civilisation to the 21st century, the course of time ...
The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights ...
Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic ...
Malcolm Lambert looks afresh at the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the holy places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and ...
The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for ...
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned ...
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 ...
Where did the human species originate, why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes, and why can only Japanese peoples digest ...
