The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our ent…
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a…
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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations.
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Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded …
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'
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When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at… -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels--poets, novelists, philosophers--who, through their epic quarrels, passiona…
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to…
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered ou…
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The Bad Popes
Let yourself be swept up by this colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years leading up to the Reformation. During this age of grande…
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific…
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, co…
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the en…
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