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Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over...
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A clear and accessible introduction to geography by two experts in the topic, part of the Ideas in Profile series....
The essential guide to one of the world's most diverse and fascinating faiths, with a Foreword by Amartya SenK. M. Sen discusses the evolution of...
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The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today’s secondlargest world religion....
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As a child, the distinguished historian the author was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few...
Told for the very first time, this is the story of the adventure that shaped the world - PRE-ORDER NOW. By knowing the shape of...
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The ULTIMATE unofficial companion to the YouTube superwoman sensation, Lilly Singh....
An epic tale of the path to power of Vladimir Putin, emerging from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders....
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title...
The former Chief Rabbi -- currently hosting his new series on BBC Radio 4 on morality -- explores the thorny issue of violence committed in...
