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'What a wonderful, eclectic daily diet of historical speech! Each entry - one for each day of the year - transports us back to hear the voices ...
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--
'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard
'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with ...
'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions ...
A fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in Florence for three ...
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of ...
John Morton (c. 1420 - 1500) was one of the most important men in the land from the Wars of the Roses to the start of ...
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled ...
A history of sewing and embroidery, told through the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language ...
TERRACOTTA WARRIORS provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs ...
Congo is one of the most complex countries in the world, yet it is the most overlooked. It is one of the wealthiest in Africa ...
"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 ...
'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect ...
A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about ...
Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstones empire that started with one bookshop in 1982.
In this charming ...
