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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has ...
Beautifully illustrated and rich in detail, Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. Before you could just put ...
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a ...
Much more than a history atlas, this book drops you right in the heart of the action, as 130 detailed maps tell the story of ...
From the mummies of Ancient Egypt; via the silken dragon robes of Imperial China and the woollen sails of Viking longboats to the Indian calicoes ...
In this fascinating and original new book, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of historical discovery that tackles some of the ...
'This is history with all the eerie qualities of a short story by Borges: emperors wait for barbarians, labyrinthine complexes of walls are discovered in ...
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating ...
A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of ...
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to ...
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that ...
The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for ...
Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future ...
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SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER
Belonging is ...
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal ...
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