The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation
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Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest...
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings
Alexander McCall Smith, James Robertson, Alistair Moffat and Kathleen Jamie
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Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander...
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
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Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city...
British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914
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Greening the Victorian Urban WorldWhether we consider the great London Planes which are now the...
Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics
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If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do...
Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past
Paul S. Sutter and Joshua P. Howe
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This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate...
Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance
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The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive...
Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
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The iconic image by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with outstretched hand and finger, exhorting you...
House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home
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Today we live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilised life. But we...
Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History: 2016
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This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a...