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How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
The Vikings: A New History
The Wright Brothers
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Royal Art of Poison
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
Atlas of Empires: The World's Great Powers from Ancient Times to Today (CompanionHouse Books) Comprehensive Resource of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations through History with Illustrations and Maps
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
A Bite-Sized History of France
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
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The Norman Conquest

1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
A History of France
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
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Talk on the Wild Side

Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
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Theater of the World

Mortal Republic
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
Liquid Rules
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The Science of Everyday Life

The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
Math with Bad Drawings
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Queen Victoria

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The Restless Kings

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
Europe
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe―A Retelling for Our Times
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World
In These Times
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
The World of the Crusades
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
The Story of Britain
Germania
Women Warriors
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
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Breakfast with Einstein

1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John
How To
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Superheavy
A History Of The Wife
Crusaders
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Medallion Status
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Dominion
The Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Medieval Bodies
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
The Invention of Yesterday
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
The Season
To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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The Map of Knowledge

Transcendence
The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against the Roman Empire
The Wonders
Thomas Cromwell
The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sovereign Ladies
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
The Human Story
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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