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Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While 'fat' describes the size and shape of bodies - their appearance - our negative reactions to corpulence also ...
Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty.
From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle to the ...
Discover the full stories behind over 85 of the world's most influential people
Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the ...
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets ...
'What a wonderful, eclectic daily diet of historical speech! Each entry - one for each day of the year - transports us back to hear the voices ...
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, the royal families of Western Europe have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a ...
'A mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after another. I could not stop reading this beautifully written book.' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in ...
A history of sewing and embroidery, told through the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language ...
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled ...
A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland
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Why is the world the way it is? What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution, influenced the ...
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world ...
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the ...
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that ...