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Reissuing with a fantastic new look to tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the Fairchild plane crash, this is the true story of what people will do when they are desperate to survive... LOST 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most is...

In 1772 French explorer Saint Alouarn arrived on the west coast of Australia "Only a historical accident prevented Australia's settlement by the French, who persistently explored this region in fierce rivalry with the British, as both nations attempted to establish trade opportunities above and ...

The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? This b...

Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out -- and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to ...

American Kompromat tells the story of the unimaginably corrupt, dissolute, and decadent subculture of the most powerful people in the world and how they have orchestrated, obtained, and used kompromat -- Russian for compromising information -- as leverage to achieve their political goals.

A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history. This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and econo...

Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, this book chronicles major events which led to the rise and fall of dynasties. The focus is also on historical figures such as a petty bureaucrat in the Qin dynasty, a writer who loved travelling, or a scholar-official who devoted himsel...

Ancient Greeks at War is a illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilisation through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with the onset Minoan culture on Crete around 2,000 BC, t...

WORLD HISTORY: BCE TO C 500 CE. PERSONAL, HUMOROUS, ENGAGING, SCHOLARLY, AND MINUTELY PRACTICAL. A splendid guidebook to Irelands spectacular antiquitiesits passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, h...

Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and l...