General and world history

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade.

The story of the legendary producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, who made superstars of the 1970's that have stood the test of time: KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament-Funkadelic.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history.

After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England.

United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but theres so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax.

The story of the most important art show in U.

This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today.

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'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy?

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.

In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft.

How were the hunter-gatherers of G bekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?

INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life.

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line.

When we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews.

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business.

A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020.

The Book of Seconds reveals the exciting, intriguing and heroic runners-up who until now have been kept in the shadow of the firsts.

Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown.

Wie die amerikanische Demokratie zum Krisenfall wurdeManfred Berg, einer der besten Kenner der USA, erzählt die lange Geschichte einer fortschreitenden Spaltung, die das Land an den Rand eines neuen Bürgerkriegs geführt hat.

Explore world history in a brief, balanced, highly readable overview that examines common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global regional patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY.

On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)?

'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post'[Reid-Henry] conveys an important message: Individual political action must become accountable to society's interests' Kirkus'Reid-Henry's scholarship is impressive, gathering a wide range of historical anecdotes and referencing a diverse set of thinkers' Publishers Weekly The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.

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'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering .

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Dublin Since 1922 tells the story of Ireland's capital city since independence.

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Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia.

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now.

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation.

'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive .

Where did it all go wrong for North Korea and right for South Korea?

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.

Discover Mya-Rose Craig's moving and life-affirming memoir about family, searching for rare birds, and the power of our natural world.

Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first steps on the moon, discover the 100 moments that defined humanity and shaped our world forever.

Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to the world around us.

How are borders built in the modern world?

Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind s relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion.

Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented?

Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.

From Uruk to New York, how urban life shaped civilisation.

Few can say they ve seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes.