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In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ...
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In 2013 London Underground, the world's first underground railway, marks its 150th anniversary. This new, lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of ...
Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined ...
From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days a new ...
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In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most ...
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Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of x-rays: Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey, Parkinson, others. "...a book useful to teacher and student ...
Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked ...