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In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith tells the sweeping story of rivers and how they made us. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders ...
The historical biography of Joseph Clover and the invention of anaesthesiaOperating with bare hands, dressed in his street clothes, he had taken those first steps ...
Stunningly illustrated biographies of the world's greatest cities, packed with paintings, photographs, maps, and artefactsFrom the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global ...
Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about ...
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution ...
'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to ...
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 ...
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'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online
'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ...
Metropolis is a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention- the city.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind ...
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 ...
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama.
In Part One, First Contact, we discover ...
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain ...
'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 ...
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war-and Presidents ...