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From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...

In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world...

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 serve as fascinating case studies...

Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...

By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...

The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...

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. **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Interesting...

'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand...

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...

A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding...

Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...

A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...

'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...

This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...

'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Excellent... his mastery of detail is...

The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...

Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the first instalment of an ambitious two-part work, and the culmination of...

The international mega-bestseller that redefined military history, reissued for the 75th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles in history In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no...

The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story of philosophy is an epic tale- an exploration of the ideas, views...

What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...

A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is...

Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....

A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light...

The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the...

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...

The terrible and compelling story of the Nazi regime, from the moment Hitler seized power in the summer of 1933 to the point where he plunged Europe into war. The...

Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...

Author: Mattias HesserusFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 740g, 300 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives...

The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times. **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means...

Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...

The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date - that completes Australia's story from the Gold Rush to the present...

A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis- a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with the natural world. 'A powerfully...

In December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America. So why he is largely forgotten...

This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who...

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...

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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the people...

Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible...

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...

'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe FernA!ndez-Armesto, author of 1492'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply...

From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...