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The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a Tragedy
For more than four weeks in the ...
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama.
In Part One, First Contact, we discover ...
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain ...
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and ...
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war-and Presidents ...
Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages ...
A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and ...
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting ...
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial ...
Sh!t happens. Every day.
Mae West was sent to jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her first Broadway play. When participation in ...
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West.
The Great Divergence sheds light on one ...
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages
Governments ...
The Enlightenment is the foundation of our modern world. This is now the book about it
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of ...
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had ...
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community.
When Alexander Graham Bell first ...
