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A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet ...
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in ...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of ...
Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy ...
The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume ...
Popular uprisings in Poland and Hungary shake Moscow's hold on its eastern European empire. Across the American South, and in the Union of South ...
The Mediterranean has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three ...
An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart ...
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the ...
100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history.
100 Documents That Changed the World brings ...
The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones-the ...
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At ...
From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century ...
