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In The Peacemakers Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human ...
Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources ...
t was the age of drag balls, Metropolis, and Josephine Baker. Of scientific breakthroughs, literary verve, and the political chaos of the Weimar Republic. After ...
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the ...
Maud Berridge (1845-1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886 ...
What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other for the first time?
In the Americas, the Spanish were ...
'The art historian Jack Hartnell tells this extraordinary story in his wonderfully rich study of the Middle Ages ... This beautifully illustrated book succeeds brilliantly in ...
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical ...
A very enjoyable and astringent account of the events that made 1968 and its aftermath so important
The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of ...
A riveting oral history of the Cold War, drawing on interviews with those who lived through its key events, based on the BBC Radio 4 ...
Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson ...
Following the success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during the Second World War, he was the obvious candidate for ...
Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain ...
Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis ...
