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Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million ...
The riveting story of the intrepid women anthropologists who redefined race, sex, gender and normality in the early twentieth century.
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Who wore the first pants?
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This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern ...
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in ...
Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200 ...
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind
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The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such ...
This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future
How did ...
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a ...
In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a ...
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight
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AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY, FROM OUR ...
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least ...
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio ...
It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect, just ...
"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the ...
