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A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and ...
Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages ...
When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
'A stunning book on the incalculable debt ...
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting ...
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial ...
A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and ...
Sh!t happens. Every day.
Mae West was sent to jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her first Broadway play. When participation in ...
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West.
The Great Divergence sheds light on one ...
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages
Governments ...
The Enlightenment is the foundation of our modern world. This is now the book about it
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of ...
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had ...
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community.
When Alexander Graham Bell first ...
A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten ...
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating ...
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent ...