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A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenon
Discover how the migration of ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a ...
Compact edition of the first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers
Discover how we got to where we are, in this ...
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those ...
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionThe Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the ...
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and ...
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought ...
Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth, could be woven into beautiful ...
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of ...
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist
'Full of curious ...
'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books of the Year
'Startlingly timely ...
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story. In a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B ...