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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.
The Renaissance is celebrated for the ...
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.
The Season of 1939 brought all ...
Pharaoh.
Icon.
Enigma.
Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century.
A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the ...
'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' - Sunday Times
'Thanks to Neima's rigorous research, each chapter offers ...
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After 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic ...
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societies
they invaded. But in fact the Mongol ...
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel-the kind of crime ...
Paris: city of love, food and fashion.
Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.
Paris: a modern metropolis.
Paris is ...
The gathering of food and the gathering of people to share a meal are at the heart of Maori family life. Award-winning food photographer Christall ...
On 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, to begin a global voyage of deep-sea exploration, unique for the scale of its ...
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A ...
