Start with grunge, hip-hop, and rave culture, the high-tech warfare of Operation Desert Storm, the creeping paranoia of Twin Peaks and The X-Files, and the rise and reign of the supermodel. Join the sweaty throngs at Berlin's dance clubs, and the outpouring of grief following the losses of Biggie and Tupac. Skip forward from the camcorder to reality TV, from riot grrrls to the Spice Girls, and from flannel shirts to black trenchcoats. Witness the slow awareness of climate change growing along...

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In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants.

A compendium of the defining events of world history, fully revised and updated with two additional days imperative to understanding the world that we live in today.

Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine.

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: a fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers.

A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.

»Als kleines Mädchen wurde ich Zeugin davon, wie die Welt, die ich liebte, durch sinnlosen Hass zerstört wurde und verschwand – und mit ihr meine beste Freundin Anne.«

Als die fünfjährige Hannah Pick-Goslar 1933 mit ihrer Familie aus Nazi-Deutschland nach Amsterdam floh, freundete sie sich dort rasch mit einem lebenslustigen Mädchen namens Anne Frank an. Jahrelang waren die beiden unzertrennlich. Doch 1942 veränderte sich das Leben der zwei besten Freundinnen auf dramatische Weise. ...

Contantinople, the capital, has a population (probably) of a million and a quarter of in-habitants, or about that of Philadelphia. Among the other important towns in European Turkey are Saloniki, an important shipping centre, with 105,000 inhabitants; Adrianople, which has had a large domestic traffic since the completion of the railway to Northern Europe.

IT is important for purposes of reference, if not directly interesting, to relate so much of Ottoman history as may be necessary for the ...