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Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, ...

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Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how

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E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of...

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The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world...

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As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty...

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Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalisation on the defensive, ...

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An incisive account of Erdogan's Turkey - showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived...

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The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today...

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The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick...

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This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on...

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A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day...

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A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day. In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in...

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The dramatic story of Rome s first emperor, who plunged into Rome s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else "created" the Roman Empire ...

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An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future...

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Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...

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Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted today, traditional conflict—fought with guns, bombs, and drones—has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage...

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An Economist Best History Book 2017 "History as it should be written."-Barry Cunliffe, Guardian "Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order...

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A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, ...

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A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present. Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for...

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A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years. Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict...

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