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A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has...
We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the...
There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better...
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With words by Ed Sheeran and illustrations by his childhood friend, artist Phillip Butah (who produces artwork for Sheeran's albums and singles), and accompanying photos,&,nbsp,Ed...
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Celebrates how parents can live, entertain and travel in style just as much as with children as before having children....
It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and...
A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year",Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in...
Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump...
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From the prize-winning author of Ring of Steel, a gripping history of the First World War's longest and most terrible siegeIn the autumn of 1914...
",Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been an...
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