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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.

A fresh perspective on Ethiopian history, architecture and culture from ancient times to 1500.

Pieces together the rise, achievements, and failures of North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

An immersive, beautifully illustrated journey through medieval manuscript production.

Ascend to the stars via a famously dazzling 17th-century atlas of 29 double-folio celestial maps, created by a master cartographer and cosmologer. Representing thinkers from Ptolemy to Copernicus, the richly adorned skies, ornate borders and constellations in this gorgeous reprint revive history’s most breathtaking visions of the skies.