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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought ...
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial ...
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how ...
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a Tragedy
For more than four weeks in the ...
A free-ranging survey of the huge impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history.
'This book deserves a place ...
'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work ...
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community.
A revelatory revisionist biography of ...
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in ...
A celebration of William Guilfoyle-botanist, landscape designer, tourist and writer
Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William ...
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as ...
Over the past three years, the world has witnessed the huge social and media discussions of what figures from the past one should, or should ...
