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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 ...
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A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
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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 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 uniquely illustrated guide to the history of our world
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A new assessment of the West's colonial record
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A concise and detailed chronological survey of world events from early human ancestors to the present day
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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 ...
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 ...
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