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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces are Changing Your Work, Health, and Wealth

By Juan Enriquez

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared M Diamond

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By Arthur Herman

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

By Susan Wise Bauer

CHINA:A HISTORY

Rome and the Mediterranean: The History of Rome from its Foundation

By Livy, A McDonald, Henry Bettenson

The Celtic Realms

By Myles Dillon, Nora K. Chadwick

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

By Jason Goodwin

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History

By E. G. Richards (formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, King's College London (retired))

The Seekers

By Daniel J. Boorstin

Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

By Colin McEvedy

Vanished Civilizations

By Reader's Digest

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

By Matthew Green

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By Karen Armstrong

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

By Thomas Cahill

Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773: v. 2

By John W. O'Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.

The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By Joseph Henrich

The Mediterranean: Cradle of European Culture

By Michael Streeter

Babylon: Myth and Reality

By Irving Finkel

Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim conquest of Syria

By Dr David Nicolle

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

By William L. Bernstein

The Penguin Atlas of African History

By Colin McEvedy

The Tribes of Britain

By Miles, David

Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

By Martin Van Creveld

The Great Divide: Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

By Peter Watson

The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures

By Marshall C. Eakin

Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

By Paul Betts

Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

By Susan Jacoby

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

By James C. Scott

After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

By John Darwin