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  • The Square and the Tower: History's Hidden Networks by

    Historians love to write about rulers--kings, emperors, presidents--or about vast social forces--migration, industrialisation--but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own ...

    due for release Oct 2017
  • Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by

    The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures ...

    due for release Oct 2017
  • Books That Changed History by

    With a foreword by James NaughtieTurn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 ...

    due for release Oct 2017
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    Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries by

    A refreshingly original history of the lost countries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examined and illustrated with the countries' postage stamps

    due for release Sep 2017
  • The Cold War: A World History by

    As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the ...

    due for release Sep 2017
  • Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
  • Map Stories: The Art of Discovery by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
  • Atlas of Untamed Places: A voyage through our extraordinary wild world by

    In a world that has increasingly become tamed by human activity, the true wild holds a growing mysticism. Rugged landscapes with unspoilt scenery invoke romantic ...

    due for release Sep 2017
  • The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by

    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 ...

    4 in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
  • Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time by

    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 ...

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  • Native Lands: A Global Journey into History and Memory by

    Native Lands is Norman Davies's account of a global circumnavigation, of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi ...

    due for release Nov 2017
  • Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by

    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 ...

    3 in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
  • The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
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    Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Wed 23rd!
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