The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
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Category: World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: How we acquire, retain and communicate knowledge from ancient times to the era of big data by Simon Winchester
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Category: World
Named a Best History Book for 2023 From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how ...Show more
Cunning Folk - Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore
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Category: World
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for ...Show more
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: World
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
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Category: World
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham
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Category: World
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was p ...Show more
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution by David Runciman
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Category: World
What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today? In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise ...Show more
Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson
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Category: World
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don't stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and un ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by DK
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Category: World
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and ...Show more
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
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Category: World
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed ...Show more
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
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Category: World
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance ma ...Show more
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity by Timothy Winegard
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Category: World
From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history. The Horse is an epic history that begins more than 5500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe when the first horse was tamed and an unbreakable bond with humans was ...Show more