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  The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

  From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global…

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  Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

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  A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

  This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself awa…

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  Life Along the Silk Road

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  The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

  Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, to reveal ancient Egypt in all its complexity. We see the relentless propaganda, the …

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  The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

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  Powerful Women of the Medieval World

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  Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

  Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park exc…

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  Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

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  The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

  The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar…

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  The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

  "Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking ), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- …

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  The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)

  How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire
  
  Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate …

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  The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

  Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our…

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  The Ancient Celts

  For two and a half thousand years the Celts have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact with them, yet their origins have remained a mystery and even today are the subject of heated d…

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  The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

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  Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

  The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the ear…

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  The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

  The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a supe…

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  Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

  The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain.
  
  In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is …

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  The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

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  Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781400076789
  
  This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrify…

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