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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world
The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation ...
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY
'Forty-thousand years of our ...
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era ...
'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and ...
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 ...
Solve intriguing and challenging puzzles based on the world-renowned British Museum collection.
The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Assyrian reliefs, the Lewis Chessmen: many mysteries of ...
A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time.
The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this ...
A humorous and informative guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.
History is the ...
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook.
The hidden ...
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental ...
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit ...
A uniquely illustrated guide to the history of our world
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the ...
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...