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A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as ...
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be ...
How does a man become a God?
It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an oldmagazine. It can ...
'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO
'An important new book' Daily Express
An alternative history of the world that exposes some ...
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of ...
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world ...
When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
'A stunning book on the incalculable debt ...
A jewel of a book, this latest release from one of Pen & Sword's women historians, contains a treasure trove of medieval dramatis personae ...
The Meaning of History is the senior thesis written by Henry Kissinger at Harvard university in 1950, when he was twenty-seven. More than 70 years ...
'This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long dure. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how ...
Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history ofpaperclips is all about the Stasi; and ...
This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that ...
