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A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
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Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day.
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A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later ...
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 ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
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 ...
'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
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