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Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around ...
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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WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters ...
All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings ...
Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the ...
A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of ...
A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon
Almost every culture on ...
A timely and fascinating history of how law rather than war became the norm in settling disputes between nations
Since the end of the Second ...
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that ...
Beautifully illustrated and rich in detail, Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. Before you could just put ...
Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and ...
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a ...
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the 'Milk of Paradise' for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer ...
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is ...