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[Sixsmith] has found another way of telling the story of the Cold War, one that laces history with the mind games that were played by ...
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day
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The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us ...
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans ...
This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning in fact, it has ...
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 ...
A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history, and why it matters, by BBC historian Janina Ramirez.
'Janina ...
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the ...
It has been almost 30 years since Francis Fukuyama proposed that we were entering into an era of triumph for Western liberalism he called "the ...
The origin story of our modern oil age
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"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This ...
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After 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic ...
