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Synopsis Full Title : Lessons from history : hidden heroes and villains of the past, and what we can learn from them. Lessons from History is a j...

Synopsis Andrew Marr, author of two bestselling histories of Great Britain now turns his attention to the world as a whole. A History of the World ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Great Commanders of The Ancient & Medieval World. Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Rom...

Synopsis Paul G. Bahn (Editor). This is a perfect handbook for all who are interested in our human past. Prepared under the direction of consultant...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...

Synopsis In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world o...

Synopsis Paying tribute to 'the essential contribution of sailors and their ships to the evolving history of the human world’, Brian Lavery’s his...

Synopsis Ever since people first took to the water, boats and ships have had a unique influence on our history. Ship unveils the drama, splendour...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

Synopsis " . . . Myths are stories that are based on tradition. Some may have factual origins, while others are completely fictional. But myths a...

Synopsis It's all in here . . . the ultimate reference book for it's time (2000). The Physical World, The Political World, The Continents, World Ec...

Synopsis Edited by Leslie Bethell. Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about th...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Quest For The North Pole. In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an islan...

Synopsis New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atl...

Synopsis George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured ...

Synopsis The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st Century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up o...

Synopsis Subtitled :  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit ...

Synopsis Full title - Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East. The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generati...

Synopsis Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to ‘Joe-1’, the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949. A...

Synopsis The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination...

Synopsis Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position...

Synopsis Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story. Blending geography...