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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama
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Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.
Great Diaries ...
A free-ranging survey of the huge impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history.
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A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed the fall of the Roman ...
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was ...
Who wore the first pants?
Who painted the first masterpiece?
Who first rode the horse?
This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern ...
Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has ...
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day ...
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, BURNING THE BOOKS takes ...
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the ...
In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world ...
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often ...
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of ...
