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A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dream...
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In this new collection of never-before-published essays, some of the world's brightest historians speculate about some of America's most intriguing cros...
Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roa...
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked and the people in it slaughtered. Since then, this incident at Mountain Meado...
In 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: Whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathemati...
In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined t...
The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell—this time aimed at . . .
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
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From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full us...
A comprehensive history of numbers and mathematics, in a three-volume set. Georges Ifrah, a maths teacher, gave up his job and travelled around the world to ass...