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Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book...

Travel thousands of years into our past and discover the significant events that shaped the world as we know it.From the founding of Baghdad, and t...

THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William ...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. The History of the World in Bite...

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'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of ...

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...

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It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life again...

One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embrac...

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new ...

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NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstei...

A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience b...

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global cri...

In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us...

Is today's youth over sensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually pathetic?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our...

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and sh...

INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...

'A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literat...

Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adol...

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chr...

Chris Schoeman neem nog Suid-Afrikaanse rampe oor die eeu heen opnuut onder die loep, maar sluit dié keer ’n heel paar minder bekende voorvalle in ...

For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge...

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from t...

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...

A history of the world told through the prism of language, from Shakespeare to Anne Frank, Martin Luther King to Greta Thunberg. A History of Wo...

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Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.History books are often filled with long descriptions, c...