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'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy ...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
This book is about a strange object-strange in ...
'Stirring' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail, BOOK OF THE WEEK
'A warm and worthy tribute' The Times
'Elegantly written, thought-provoking' The Lady
'A lucid and affectionate ...
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get ...
On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a ...
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world
We ...
Beards-they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair ...
A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of ...
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the ...
How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? And ...
The story of medicine from Moses to Ebola - "Horrible Histories for grow-ups!"
From earliest times, man has struggled to control his environment and his fate ...
History's Greatest Mysteries delves into the grey, mysterious areas of history to examine the imponderable and sometimes unlikely stories of actual events and real ...