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A new look at the legacy of WWI, a war fought for peace yet followed by a century of devastating violence "The war to end ...
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today- slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing ...
This book tells the story of the early history of surgery - when surgeons were equipped with just knives, fire and boiling oil. The two events ...
From the author of "A Splendid Exchange" comes a remarkable history of media - from the alphabet to the internet - that examines how it has shaped ...
Now in paperback, the fascinating, quirky, highly acclaimed book about that indispensable object, the pencil. Petroski traces its origins back to ancient Greece and Rome ...
For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away ...
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 ...
This book offers brief outlines of key developments in the history of the world, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the ...
So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the ...
This new edition of The Penguin History of the World is an opportunity to celebrate a book that is both a richly rewarding narrative and ...
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern ...
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 ...