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The Knifemaker asks searching questions about the morality of science via the biography of Werhner Von Braun, whose life embodies the contradiction at the heart of many landmark advancements of the twentieth century: between the romance of new scientific frontiers and the human cost of reaching...

A History of the World in12 Diseases focuses on the key diseases and infections that have shaped the modern world as we know it. This book chronicles the diseases that have changed the world, helped us to develop vaccines and technology, and ultimately altered the course of history. It includes...

The Well-Tempered Society has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Monteverdi and His Constellation, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

Poison and Politics, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

A glittering, sun-drenched biography of diver Honor Frost, who pioneered underwater archeology amidst the sunken ships of the Mediterranean. Honor Frost was born in 1917 into upper class British society in Cyprus, where as a child she scavenged for fossil and swam in the sea. As a young woman...

The Lost Continent, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

A tale as compelling as the search for Atlantis, Shangri La, and King Solomon’s Mines—the untold story of our obsession with finding Antarctica, including the people and riches we expected to find, and the explorers who risked their lives to conquer it. An idea so seductive that it gripped...

Early Greece, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

More series of Misha Glenny’s BBC Radio 4 show about the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide Former BBC Central European correspondent Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are today. Aided by a wealth...

A Short History of World War II has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

What if everything you thought you knew about human history was only part of the story? Humans: Our Seven Million Year History offers an ambitious re-examination of our past on a truly global scale, integrating groundbreaking archaeological and scientific discoveries to present a nuanced and...

A groundbreaking archeologist offers a bottom-up perspective on humankind through the essential materials that have shaped our lives—from the wood and soil that built civilization to the plastic and concrete that threaten to destroy it. “What we think and say may turn out to be less telling...

In this irreverent and entertaining world history, acclaimed author of On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down James Fell explores humanity's checkered past to determine if we can overcome avarice, misogyny, zealotry, and hate to ultimately save our species from extinction. Behold! Profane and...

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Chip War meets Guns, Germs, and Steel in this sweeping and urgent discussion of how mineral wealth fuels prosperity and might, revealing that, for more than 5,000 years, the world's most powerful nations have controlled the critical minerals of their day—and how China's current, massive...

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes a gripping tale of exploration, survival, and geopolitical power in the Arctic Circle. The year was 1913. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson was obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island...

An inspiriting guide for relaxing your nervous system, sourcing true resilience, and finding your center in an anxious age. In an era of dumpster fires and doomscrolling, is there any such thing as a healthy relationship with our stress response? While we can’t avoid crisis, we can learn to...

The author, one of the foremost scholars on Africa, fought to legitimize African history for more than 60 years. This book finally uncovers the tumultuous life of this great figure. Through a series of autobiographical essays, Clarke looks back on his lifelong struggle to restore African history...

An award-winning young scholar explores how Black women have remade—and continue to remake—our understanding of the past. Across centuries, Black women have invented means to preserve what official history could not: friendship albums, kitchen-table philosophy, blogs, playlists, oral...