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  • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Newitz, Annalee
    Annalee Newitz

    Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

    In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the...
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  • The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Favereau, Marie
    Marie Favereau

    The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

    2021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only...
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  • National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times by Isbouts, Jean-Pierre
    Jean-Pierre Isbouts

    National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times

    Author: Jean-Pierre IsboutsISBN-10: 1426221894ISBN-13: 9781426221897Publisher: National Geographic SocietyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2021Pages: 656Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.65lbsSize: 11.02h x 9.61w x 1.81d
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  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which...
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  • Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by Suzman, James
    James Suzman

    Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

    "This book is a tour de force." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and...
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  • Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths by Browder, Anthony T.
    Anthony T. Browder

    Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths

    Author: Anthony T. BrowderISBN-10: 092494403XISBN-13: 9780924944031Publisher: Institute of Karmic GuidanceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1992Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.20h x 7.40w x 0.70d
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  • On Grand Strategy by Gaddis, John Lewis
    John Lewis Gaddis

    On Grand Strategy

    "The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader."--The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has...
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  • Names, Nations, and the New Testament: Investigating the origins of mankind from Genesis to Acts by Craig, Madelyn Rose
    Madelyn Rose Craig

    Names, Nations, and the New Testament: Investigating the origins of mankind from Genesis to Acts

    Names, Nations, and the New Testament will explain in brief how the nations of the world arose from the sons of Noah, how they spread across the face of the whole earth, and why that should matter to you. These chapters discuss the history...
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  • The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Balter, Michael
    Michael Balter

    The Goddess and the Bull: ﾇatalh?: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization

    Veteran science writer Michael Balter skillfully weaves together many threads in this fascinating book about one of archaeology's most legendary sites- ﾇatalh?. First excavated forty years ago, the site is justly revered by prehistorians, art historians, and New Age goddess worshippers alike for its...
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia by Faust, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Faust

    Ancient Mesopotamia

    Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq, the region known as Mesopotamia, Greek for between two rivers, is often called the cradle of civilization. The region is known for the rise of the first cities, as well as the invention of...
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  • Sumerian Mythology: A Deep Guide into Sumerian History and Mesopotamian Empire and Myths by Brown, Joshua
    Joshua Brown

    Sumerian Mythology: A Deep Guide into Sumerian History and Mesopotamian Empire and Myths

    Do you want to discover the Sumerian history and mythology that have inspired men and women around the world for thousands of years? Sumerian history and mythology have been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years. These tales of the world's very first civilization...
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  • The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation by Hubbard, Arthur John
    Arthur John Hubbard

    The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology by Blechman, Max
    Max Blechman

    Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology

    Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and...
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  • The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Quigley, Carroll
    Carroll Quigley

    The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

    Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look...
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  • After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Jacobs, Margaret D.
    Margaret D. Jacobs

    After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

    A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted...
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  • The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Spitzer, Michael
    Michael Spitzer

    The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

    "Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66...
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  • The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles
    Sophocle

    The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

    'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's...
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  • In the Beginning by Velikovsky, Immanuel
    Immanuel Velikovsky

    In the Beginning

    This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentioned there that, as...
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  • The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Winegard, Timothy C.
    Timothy C. Winegard

    The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

    **The instant New York Times bestseller***An international bestseller* "Hugely impressive, a major work."--NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force...
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  • The Decline of the West, Vol. II: Perspectives of World-History by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West, Vol. II: Perspectives of World-History

    "The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself...
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  • The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Mangalwadi, Vishal
    Vishal Mangalwadi

    The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

    Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his...
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  • China: A History by Keay, John
    John Keay

    China: A History

    An authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital...
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  • Critical Path by Fuller, R. Buckminster
    R. Buckminster Fuller

    Critical Path

    Critical Path marks the masterwork of one of the finest minds and most significant thinkers of the modern age R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect,...
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  • A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Gopnik, Adam
    Adam Gopnik

    A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

    A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in...
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  • Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts by Finkel, Irving
    Irving Finkel

    Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts

    Cuneiform script on clay tablets is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The resilience of clay has permitted these records to survive for thousands of years, providing a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, and religious institutions...
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  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Bittman, Mark
    Mark Bittman

    Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

    From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics....
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  • Babylon: A Captivating Guide to the Kingdom in Ancient Mesopotamia, Starting from the Akkadian Empire to the Battle of Opis Aga by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Babylon: A Captivating Guide to the Kingdom in Ancient Mesopotamia, Starting from the Akkadian Empire to the Battle of Opis Aga

    Explore the Captivating History of BabylonThe Babylonian influence upon its successors and even modern society knows no bounds. One of the leading civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Babylonians provided the fundamentals of mathematics, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, and other influential and necessary fields required to develop...
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  • Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by Cahill, Thomas
    Thomas Cahill

    Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus--an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization. "Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] makes Jesus a still-living literary...
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  • The Peloponnesian War by Kagan, Donald
    Donald Kagan

    The Peloponnesian War

    For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world's most respected classical, political,...
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  • The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today by Davis, James C.
    James C. Davis

    The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today

    "A brisk and cheerfully traditional trip through our history, from homo erectus to George W. Bush." --Kirkus ReviewsIn The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered...
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  • The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Collins, Paul
    Paul Collins

    The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations

    The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold...
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  • Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings by DK
    DK

    Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings

    Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities...
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  • The City of Babylon: A History, C. 2000 BC - Ad 116 by Dalley, Stephanie
    Stephanie Dalley

    The City of Babylon

    The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6 by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6

    Edward Gibbon's classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. Easily the most famous historical chronicle in English, Gibbon's account...
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  • The Penguin History of the World by Roberts, J. M.
    J. M. Roberts

    The Penguin History of the World

    The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story...
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  • Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Kriwaczek, Paul
    Paul Kriwaczek

    Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In...
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  • The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Wickham, Chris
    Chris Wickham

    The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

    "The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK) "A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary Review (UK) A unique and...
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  • Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Matyszak, Philip
    Philip Matyszak

    Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

    The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been unjustly forgotten. Our history is overflowing with different cultures...
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  • The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Ansary, Tamim
    Tamim Ansary

    The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

    From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine...
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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars...
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  • The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Tuchman, Barbara W.
    Barbara W. Tuchman

    The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's...
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  • Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization by Arora, Namit
    Namit Arora

    Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization

    What do we really know about the Aryan migration theory and why is that debate so hot? Why did the people of Khajuraho carve erotic scenes on their temple walls? What did the monks at Nalanda eat for dinner? Did our ideals of beauty...
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  • The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages by Vigato, Marco M.
    Marco M. Vigato

    The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages

    Establishes the historical and geological reality of Atlantis and reveals its continuing influence around the world - Traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, as well as the colonies and outposts formed by its survivors in Egypt, Gekli Tepe, India, Mesopotamia,...
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  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Kelly, Robert L.
    Robert L. Kelly

    The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

    "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key...
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  • A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Evans, Robert
    Robert Evans

    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

    A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun--or more intoxicating....
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  • Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Finkel, Caroline
    Caroline Finkel

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

    The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by...
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  • Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Critchlow, Donald T.
    Donald T. Critchlow

    Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny

    Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors--capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they...
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  • A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Hanson, Victor Davis
    Victor Davis Hanson

    A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

    One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most...
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  • Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition by Crane, Nicholas
    Nicholas Crane

    Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

    Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team...
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  • Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places by DK
    DK

    Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places

    Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight into the events, movements, and people throughout history who have shaped the cities where we live. Written in a "biography" format, it...
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