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How our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten pioneers, the antiquariesBetween the ...
A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind
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A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II
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"Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ ...
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history ...
Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the ...
In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith tells the sweeping story of rivers and how they made us. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders ...
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