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A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic
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A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, from Europe to the Antipodes, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it
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Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity ...
An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo ...
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who ...
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade
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'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks ...
We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our understanding of these ...
The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world
The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation ...
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story ...
Nuclear Folly includes newly declassified documents from Russias KGB archives, delving into both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia had orders to fly planes ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold War. Washington ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how ...