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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
The Spectre of War ...
"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 ...
'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal
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'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles ...
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 ...
Stunningly illustrated biographies of the world's greatest cities, packed with paintings, photographs, maps, and artefactsFrom the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global ...
The historical biography of Joseph Clover and the invention of anaesthesiaOperating with bare hands, dressed in his street clothes, he had taken those first steps ...
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution ...
Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about ...
'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to ...
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as ...
Over the past three years, the world has witnessed the huge social and media discussions of what figures from the past one should, or should ...
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'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online
'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ...
Metropolis is a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention- the city.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind ...
