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This explosive national bestseller is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the ...

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'A new understanding of history' Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% 'If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a...

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Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of histo...

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies...

The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world—yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. In this vital...

A comic tour of history’s greatest mistakes and how they have shaped our world, packed with reckless rulers, hare-brained plans, monumental mistake...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny’ Richard Osman ‘This book is super...

Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: ...

Journey through time and unravel the mysteries of ancient civilizations with this captivating pocket guide to the art and science of archaeology. E...

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Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scene...

A radical reassessment of one of the most pervading myths of our time: that the African continent is uniquely ill-suited to economic development Th...

‘Albanese is perhaps the one figure of our times that future historians will recall as the one who did the most to redeem our generation from its g...

After many years of planning, scheming, and skullduggery, President Kruger launched his invasions of British territory on 11 October 1899, sparking...

Presented in a high-quality Chinese-bound format with accompanying artwork, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Illustrated provides a compact, easy-to-un...

Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise. It was quite hazardous, so you needed help along ...

Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise - but it was quite a hazardous journey so you woul...

“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)               We in the West shar...

This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Cha...

Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias. Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medellín Cartel, New York’s Five Fa...

The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over t...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the lar...

An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians. Gaza: ...

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In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. ...

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