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The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
Dearie
Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus
Who Was Dracula?
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The Children of Henry VIII

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
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The Tragedy of the Templars

Abominable Science!  Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
The twelve caesars
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
Jane Austen's England
The History of the Renaissance World
Shakespeare's Restless World
Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
Heretics and Heroes
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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Between Man and Beast

Tudors
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
The Infographic History of the World
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Servants
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
A History of the World in 12 Maps
America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History
A Short History of Christianity
The World of Downton Abbey
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Holy Holidays!: The Catholic Origins of Celebration
This Saint's for You!: 300 Heavenly Allies Who Will Change Your Life
The Etymologicon
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
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British English from A to Zed

Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
Gods of Olympus a History
Broken Elements
The Mismeasure of Man
THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mythical Zoo: Animals in Life, Legend and Literature
Love Life
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
The Serpent's Promise
Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
My boyfriend barfed in my handbag ... and other things you can't ask Martha
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
The Chemistry of Alchemy
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The Third Horseman

Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders
West of the Revolution
A Dog's History of the World: Canines and the Domestication of Humans
Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
The Victorian city
This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research
Riveted
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
Inside the Victorian Home
The Human Age
The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Demon's brood
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
How We Got to Now
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
How to be a Victorian
The Age of the Vikings
Zoom
Your Atomic Self
The Middle Ages
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The Perfect King

Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
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1000 Years of Annoying the French

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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The Age of Wonder

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