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Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer ...
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright
In The Map of ...
The Curse of Oak Island is high-quality narrative non-fiction from a top-shelf journalist, extrapolated from Randall Sullivan's successful 2004 Rolling Stone article of the ...
In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but ...
The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order
Steam power transformed our world, initiating ...
Geoffrey Robertson focuses his razor-sharp mind on one of the greatest contemporary issues in the worlds of art and culture- the return of cultural property ...
In Budapest, a lone woman dies quietly on a bench in the late afternoon sun, while in South Africa, a group of men plunge to ...
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking. The stories we tell ...
"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read."-Nature
The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising ...
In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight ...
Metropolis is a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention- the city.
A dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention- the city.
From ...
A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths - and ...
'So, so good! ... More gems than a pirate's chest ... science, art, history, culture - it's epic and mammoth, a repository of all our truths ...
In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending ...
This timely history of the neglected figure of Daniel Sutton-the medical revolutionary who paved the way for present-day vaccination-was named a best book of 2020 ...
