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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers 'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-b...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intell...

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**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent hi...

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Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six m...

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumb...

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An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy "Hasen has written an extraordinary, thorough and fair examination of the impact of misinformation o...

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Stormakter har förundrat människor ända sedan dessa först bredde ut sig över jorden för tusentals år sedan. Samtliga historiska imperier har förr eller senare fallit: assyrier, babylonier, romare, perser, araber, kineser, mongoler, britter, tyskar...

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From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the ea...

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Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how, in a society dominated by religion, the Church view...

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A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentie...

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Under 1800-talets andra hälft och början av 1900-talet lämnade 1,2 miljoner svenskar landet för att söka sig en framtid i USA. De allra flesta vågade den långa resan för att förbättra sina ekonomiska villkor, men för många hägrade också ett liv i ...

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»Tankeväckande. En av de bästa böckerna just nu.« Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet Är vi rakt igenom autonoma individer, fria att göra det vi vill? Eller spelar ödet någon roll i våra liv? Och hur kan vi förlika oss med vårt förflutna? Det här är fr...

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'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a w...

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WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by a...

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Den medeltida pestepidemin, digerdöden, slukade proportionellt sett fler människoliv än någon annan historisk katastrof. För 1300-talets människor, bedövade av epidemins omfattning, var den helt enkelt "stora döden". Dick Harrisons mäktiga krönika...

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'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates __________ We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most f...

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful story that is probably not yet over' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph A compelling history of the turbulent journey t...

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'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill Gates Is...

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**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** 25th Anniversary Edition. Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute ...

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A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos...

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The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade...

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One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.

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Jesus - historiens mest kända individ - finns det mer att skriva om honom? Javisst, anser historikern Dick Harrison, särskilt om man vänder på perspektiven och ställer frågor som är intressanta för nutidsmänniskan. Att Jesus har tillägnats fler bi...

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The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future "A great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications."-Preston Gralla, Arts Fuse Fifteen years before the comm...

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A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Pa...

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For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the a...

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'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he ...

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The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and sto...

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European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Ey...

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