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A riveting oral history of the Cold War, drawing on interviews with those who lived through its key events, based on the BBC Radio 4 ...
Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson ...
Following the success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during the Second World War, he was the obvious candidate for ...
Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain ...
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Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future ...
Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they ...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing ...
For as long as people have traveled to ...
From the emergence of hominids millions of years ago, up to the present day, this book is a huge compilation of facts, features, and images ...
Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland's finest ...
A magical, wise and beguiling history of all the ways in which our world has been made by the horse.
The relationship between horses and ...
An epic, award-winning account of Pakeha-Maori relations immediately following Captain Cook's voyages to New Zealand.
'Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.'
-Michael King, North & ...