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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics.”— Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street...
First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821 - long before the era of colour photography or print - Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of...
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the...
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father, intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant....
On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London’s Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the...
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking...
The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous – and notorious – warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sank HMS Hood, the...
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions &,nbsp, A byword for injustice, suffering,...
Covers various aspects of the Stones' story, including the band's private lives, drug busts, performances, recording sessions, public appearances, photo sessions and more. The photographs,...
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so,...
Bob Woodward's second work of non-fiction on the Trump presidency....
Part social history and part design catalogue, this innovative book delves into the sinister history of 19th-century wallpaper....
In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the event of a successful...
Banksy in New York offers a first-hand account of his residency: the defacement and removal of his pieces, reactions from neighbors and building owners and...
Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy &,nbsp, The...
An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do...
From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive study of the dating of the Hebrew Bible The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that...
Go behind the scenes of The Umbrella Academy, one of Netflix's most watched shows with a second season debuting July 31st 2020! Dive into the...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history &,nbsp,“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . .. The Great...
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