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What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human ...
This book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England ...
The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading
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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 rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything
The Enlightenment did not begin in ...
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar's ...
A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future. For fans of Tim Marshall ...
THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
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The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new assessment of the West's colonial record
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989 ...
'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 ...
A concise and detailed chronological survey of world events from early human ancestors to the present day
Discover the world's most significant events through ...
'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim Marshall
Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains ...
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity ...
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable ...
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters
In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into ...