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An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo ...
'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks ...
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade
"This is a landmark study given its clear ...
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who ...
This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital ...
A funny, revealing, myth-busting guide to all the history you thought happened but never actually did, from historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, better known online as ...
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 ...
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story ...
Nuclear Folly includes newly declassified documents from Russias KGB archives, delving into both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia had orders to fly planes ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold War. Washington ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal
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In The Map of ...