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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—...

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The Celestial Hunter

There was a time when, upon encountering other beings, it was not certain whether they were animals...

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Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941

'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a w...

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Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help human...

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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (With a New Preface)

A “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs o...

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The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to fi...

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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began

When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered Amer...

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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two p...

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Churchill and the Dardanelles

The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove W...

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The Spartans

The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebo...

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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'...

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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

'WE GREEKS ARE ONE IN BLOOD AND ONE IN LANGUAGE; WE HAVE TEMPLES TO THE GODS AND RELIGIOUS RITES IN...

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A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe

The concept of a 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture North of the Alp...

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The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Br...

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China and the World

As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the fu...

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