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Criss-crossing the globe from the prehistoric era to the modern day, Professor Jeremy Black takes you on a whirlwind tour of our past, leaving no...
A Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for a better future. Muhammad Yunus is the economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and...
",Vivid, page-turning...will make a signal contribution to the national debate over who should be the next American president",. (Michael Beschloss, bestselling author of Presidential Courage)....
Explains the meanings associated with objects, plants, animals, myths, religious symbols, and images in art....
As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil...
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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder...
'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and...
WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE ",FINANCIAL TIMES", BOOK OF THE YEAR Fast-paced and excellently written A much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable explanation... ",The...
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may...
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past....
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup...
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for...
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise, Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana,...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were...
From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India, from west to east and back again, this book follows the processes of...
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How...
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