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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old ...
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic ...
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of ...
Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ...
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating ...
A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous ...
A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate ...
The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for ...
An extraordinary and eye-opening account of the pivotal events during the thirteen months between 1947-1948 that shaped the world we know today.
Two years after ...
As Napoleon once observed, history is largely a set of lies agreed upon by the winners and, once a lie attains the dignity of age ...
How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world
Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013
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The new bestseller that shows why everything we thought we knew about history was wrong
'The most brilliant historian of his generation' The Times
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