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In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of...
From the bestselling author of Rubicon and Persian Fire comes this thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam...
This fascinating book continues the story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed book The Mind in the Cave. Drawing on the latest research and...
Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy:...
When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance...
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips...
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of...
A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeA Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph,...
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day &,nbsp,“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of...
",Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself.",--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review...
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post....
A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how...
'Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is worth your time, being a pacy, lively account of the single most important...
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years...
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom...
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