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The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In ...
The enchanted world of fairy tales has been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean and what ...
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and ...
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and ...
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For centuries arsenic's image as a poison has been inextricably tied to images of foul play. In King of Poisons, John Parascandola examines the ...
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people ...
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 ...
From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days a new ...
So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the ...
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most ...
In 2013 London Underground, the world's first underground railway, marks its 150th anniversary. This new, lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of ...
The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
"All stories begin with 'Once upon a ...
Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original ...