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From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution-in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany; among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers ...
In this original biography, Simon Winchester explores the life of the Atlantic; it's birth, its relationship with mankind, and what lies in store for ...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as ...
A lighthearted look at 50 of the grandest predictions the world has seen - and how they were proved to be spectacularly wrong. The book asks ...
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed ...
This is a revealing, in-depth biography of the mysterious and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile made him an object of intense fascination ...
Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries ...
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with ...
On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began. Its aim was to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the ...
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the ...
A Left-Handed History of the World has now been updated to include a chapter on President Obama. About 10 per cent of the general population ...
This book details the lives and deeds of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Trailblazers, hell-raisers and firebrands, these women showed a level ...
"A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better."
