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",How India's youth are trading fatalism and karma for free will and higher expectations, by a former New York Times New Delhi bureau chief who...
The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade...
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The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West. China is the oldest...
*Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2022*'A wonderful book.'Peter Frankopan'A masterpiece'Gregory Nagy, Harvard University'Remarkable'Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules-For NowThe way we...
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Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father...
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A Financial Times Book of the YearThough we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who...
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