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This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning in fact, it has ...
A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history, and why it matters, by BBC historian Janina Ramirez.
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The origin story of our modern oil age
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It has been almost 30 years since Francis Fukuyama proposed that we were entering into an era of triumph for Western liberalism he called "the ...
"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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After 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic ...
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'Thanks to Neima's rigorous research, each chapter offers ...
Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of ...
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why ...
'Lucid, informed and persuasive' Evening Standard
'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail
'An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer
The history of humanity's relationship ...
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed ...
A dazzling history of the world's emperors, spanning the last thousand years
For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors- a handful ...