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A concise and detailed chronological survey of world events from early human ancestors to the present day
Discover the world's most significant events through ...
A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic
A dazzling exploration of ...
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters
In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into ...
We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our understanding of these ...
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story ...
Nuclear Folly includes newly declassified documents from Russias KGB archives, delving into both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia had orders to fly planes ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO
'An important new book' Daily Express
An alternative history of the world that exposes some ...
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer ...
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright
In The Map of ...
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states ...
An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi ...
In 1977 an abiding desire to photograph Old World peoples and cultures offered 23-year-old Victoria Ginn an escape from the wintery city of Melbourne, Australia ...
Profit - getting more out of something than you put into it - is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy ...
