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A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins
Being Human is history ...
An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi ...
In 1977 an abiding desire to photograph Old World peoples and cultures offered 23-year-old Victoria Ginn an escape from the wintery city of Melbourne, Australia ...
Profit - getting more out of something than you put into it - is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy ...
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over ...
Iconoclasm: Rejecting the past is a warning bell, an alarm, alerting readers to the threat against the tolerance and openness of democratic society.
Iconoclasm, the ...
"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character ...
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate
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A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers.
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the ...
After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British ...
A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day.
In Leftovers, Eleanor ...
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress ...
For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the ...
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER
'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON ...
A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Empireland
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