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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 ...
An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and ...
The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the ...
You think you know her story. You've read the Brothers Grimm, you've watched the Disney cartoons, you cheered as these virtuous women lived ...
In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia ...
In l914 the world changed forever. When World War Ibroke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows ...
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one ...
A special edition of the international bestseller that is "sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it's even better as ...
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform ...
FDR, Stalin, Churchill, Truman and the making of the modern world.
From the bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight, this is the riveting story ...
The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological ...
At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that ...
Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once ...
