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A fascinating journey through the history of medicine, packed with first-hand accounts of incredible breakthroughs and tragic failures
Immerse yourself in the history of medicine ...
A "meticulously researched" (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global ...
Poison: A History lifts the lid on 30 notorious cases of poisoning - riveting accounts ranging from Roman poisoning epidemics to the shocking antics of toxic ...
The story of apples begins in an unexpected place: with bears. While popular culture likes to link honey with these creatures, DNA evidence shows that ...
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a ...
Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the ...
A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making.
A landmark historical investigation ...
A brilliant work of narrative history with an international cast of characters that captures this definitive period after the close of the Great War.
In ...
'The only thing that is good is poppies. They are gold.'
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the 'Milk of ...
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world
'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna ...
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond ...
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance ...
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now ...
