World History
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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Tom Holland
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence...
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Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents
Peter Snow
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians...
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The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 – AD 1700
Charles Freeman
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the...
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The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
John Dickie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Insiders call it ‘the Craft’.
To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious and suspect. Yet...
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Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Anne Applebaum
Read more ▸ Order ▸Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics....
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The Lost Art of Scripture
Karen Armstrong
Read more ▸ Order ▸In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at...
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Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Jonathan Ree
Read more ▸ Order ▸Witcraft is a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English. It presents...
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Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
Robert Stone
Read more ▸ Order ▸In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War...
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Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Richard Holloway
Read more ▸ Order ▸Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it...
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The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World
Samir Puri
Read more ▸ Order ▸For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn’t mean...
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Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikoetter
Read more ▸ Order ▸Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti....
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Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
Stephen Taylor
Read more ▸ Order ▸A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail,...