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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 ...
A tongue-in-cheek guide to becoming a dictator, based on the outrageous,
scandalous, and excessive behavior of dictators past and present
Who hasn't dreamed of ...
These are the stories of fifty countries that once existed - however briefly - but have now have been erased from the map. Varying vastly in size ...
The Library- A Catalogue of Wonders is a love letter to libraries not just as mere collections of books, but as magical, fabled places.
Libraries ...
Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, PRIMITIVE REBELS, he ...
'Flesh and Blood is living drama extracted like buried treasure from old documents and the hand-me-down stories of his relatives. I couldn't put it ...
Hundreds of islands that once appeared on nautical charts and general atlases are now known to have vanished-or never even existed. How were they detected ...
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two ...
Part memoir, part biography, part cultural meander, an irresistibly intelligent literary walk through the lives of wandering women- about how, by putting one foot in ...
In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town ...
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman ...
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific ...
In this gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psychology of the war criminals at Nuremberg
When the ashes had ...
