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This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world ...

This new four-volume History is the first to survey the entire history of slavery across the world, from antiquity to the present day. It is written by an outstanding international team of scholars ...

The sales of comic books increased markedly during World War II. They were cheap, portable and had inspirational, patriotic stories of good triumphing over evil. The tales very much reflected the ...

Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos. Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books to help ...

We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we ...

Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire gives us a rare example of viewing the world of Star Wars through ... treated like a book about history. It examines systems—fictional systems—that allowed ...

According to background documents, a payment was made on Mr Trump's behalf to "Woman 1" - who evidence suggests is Karen McDougal. Ms McDougal is an ex-Playboy model and, like Ms Daniels ...

As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war ...

the prickly American famously vowed "I shall return" from a remote train station before marshaling Allied forces to victory During World War II, British officer Dudley Clarke led A Force ...