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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 ...
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 ...
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A comic tour of history's greatest mistakes and how they have shaped our world, packed with reckless rulers, hare-brained plans, monumental mistakes and disastrous ...
History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of ...
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 ...
The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for ...
An ideal gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities.Defined as sovereign states with a very small population, land area, or both, microstates ...
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world ...
The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages ...
Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day.
Organized chronologically, A History of ...
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Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the ...
In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence ...
Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards
Runner-up, 2024 History category, San Francisco Book Festival
For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to ...