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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW ...

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the master storyteller and internation...

The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...

Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about ...

TRAITORS OF ROME: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling Cato and Macro adventure from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by rea...

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?- Why did the French believ...

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...

'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsPraise for Sunday Times No.1 bestse...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAV...

  This stunning paperback box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collinss internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy...

A LITHUB BOOK OF THE DECADE. The US is one of the largest democracies in the world or is it? America is experiencing an age of profound economic i...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had kn...

For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights...

An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-cen...

'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the contin...

Churchill''s War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it...