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The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell ...
The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume ...
This workbook provides extra practice of key skills and encourages an inquiry-based approach to learning-perfect for in-class work or homework.
This book is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction 2010. The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally ...
Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea ...
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This vibrantly illustrated book is an original look at the myriad roles played by textiles in all aspects of human life, from ancient weavings to ...
In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights ...
For almost five millennia, indigo - a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub - has been at the centre of turbulent ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...
"Great Discoveries in Medicine" provides an unrivalled account of the evolution of medical knowledge and practice from ancient Egypt, India and China to todays latest ...
From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution-in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany; among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers ...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as ...
In this original biography, Simon Winchester explores the life of the Atlantic; it's birth, its relationship with mankind, and what lies in store for ...
