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• Author(s): Adrian Goldsworthy • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - AncientFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating defeatAugust 2, 216 BC ...

• Author(s): Virginia Postrel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Str...

• Author(s): Brian Fagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralIn 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered thro...

• Author(s): Ralph D. Sawyer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: HistoryIn The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable traditio...

• Author(s): Jared Farmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralThe epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world "Rich...fascinating."--The Wall Street Journal Humans hav...

• Author(s): David Gollaher • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryFrom the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through its use by nineteenth...