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'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be ...
'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...
The globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past.
A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as ...
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world ...
A jewel of a book, this latest release from one of Pen & Sword's women historians, contains a treasure trove of medieval dramatis personae ...
The Meaning of History is the senior thesis written by Henry Kissinger at Harvard university in 1950, when he was twenty-seven. More than 70 years ...
'This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long duree. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how ...
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of ...
This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that ...
Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history ofpaperclips is all about the Stasi; and ...
[Sixsmith] has found another way of telling the story of the Cold War, one that laces history with the mind games that were played by ...
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day
"Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past ...
The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us ...