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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 ...
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The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best ...
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 ...
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
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A uniquely illustrated guide to the history of our world
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The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook.
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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 ...
A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time.
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A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything
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