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In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.
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"Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity." --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a ...
In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible - a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages ...
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century". The Russian ...
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change
First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning ...
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever ...
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A breathtaking expose that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all ...
Poised between earth and heaven, the material and the spiritual, burial places are amongst the most important sites ever built.
Man is the only animal ...
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel ...