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A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of ...
A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon
Almost every culture on ...
A timely and fascinating history of how law rather than war became the norm in settling disputes between nations
Since the end of the Second ...
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that ...
Beautifully illustrated and rich in detail, Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. Before you could just put ...
Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and ...
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a ...
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the 'Milk of Paradise' for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer ...
It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an ...
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is ...
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things ...
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic ...
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying ...
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of ...
