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The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ...
The global phenomenon. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In ...
In this highly topical work in light of Brexit, Donald Trump' s Presidency and the rise of the alt-right, #1 New York Times bestselling and ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel ...
These are the stories of fifty countries that once existed but have now have been erased from the map. Varying vastly in size and shape ...
Through this magnificent collection of historical maps, travel writer Francisca Matteoli takes us on a geographical adventure, telling the stories of twenty-three places and voyages ...
Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move ...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of ...
Heat and fire have been at humanity's command for at least 100,000 years, but we've been in control of the cold for ...
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman ...
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They ...
The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an ...
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We ...
How did everything get so dumb? How did we become hostages to idiocy? What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom ...
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