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'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be ...
The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best ...
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world
In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six ...
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts ...
A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps
North, south, east and ...
The origin story of our modern oil age
Petroleum has always been used by humans- as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in ...
Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial ...
A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians
There can be few more important but also more contentious ...
The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live
Fareed Zakaria first warned of ...
This book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England ...
Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day.
Organized chronologically, A History of ...
A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future. For fans of Tim Marshall ...
Explore the history of the world in unprecedented detail with this ultimate guide to history throughout the ages.
Maps don't just show us where ...
...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It ...
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.
In her previous two ...
