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  • Silk

    Nine Stories of the Fiber That Made the World Small

    It came from the spit of a worm. It rewrote the map of the world.Five thousand years ago, in the hills of China, a woman dropped a cocoon into hot water and pulled out a single thread half a mile long. China would guard the secret of how she did it for the next three thousand years, and kill to keep it. When the thread finally escaped, it dragged armies, religions, and empires along the road it ... Leer más

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  • The Empire Is the Decorator

    Ten Everyday Objects and the Empires Hidden in Your Home

    This morning, before you were fully awake, you held a conquest in your hand. It was just the cup.The white porcelain of your mug was a secret Europe couldn't crack for a thousand years. The shine on your spoon came out of a silver mountain fed with human lives. The red of your table was a felled rainforest, the shell of your buttons was hauled up by divers who never came up right. None of it ... Leer más

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  • Mummy Mania

    How Europe Ate the Egyptian Dead, Painted With Them, and Sold Them by the Ton

    For three hundred years, Europe could not stop consuming the Egyptian dead. They ate them, painted with them, and sold them by the ton.In a London lecture theatre in the 1830s, a fashionable crowd in evening dress pressed in to watch a surgeon unwrap a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian body in front of them. Tickets were hard to get. It was entertainment. And it was only the most respectable use ... Leer más

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  • Marcus Aurelius

    The Life and Philosophy of a Stoic Emperor

    de Nathan Mercer ...
    What can a Roman emperor teach us about living a better life today?Marcus Aurelius commanded the most powerful empire on Earth. He led armies through brutal wars, governed millions of people, endured political betrayal, and buried many of those he loved.Yet his greatest battle was not against foreign enemies.It was against fear, anger, ego, grief, and the restless voice within his own mind.Nearly ... Leer más

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  • Athens vs. Sparta

    The War That Broke Classical Greece (The Great Wars of History)

    What happens when the greatest civilization in the ancient world turns against itself?Athens was wealthy, innovative, and fiercely democratic. Sparta was disciplined, militaristic, and built upon an uncompromising way of life. Together, they had helped save Greece from the Persian Empire.Then they went to war.What began as a rivalry between two powerful city-states grew into a devastating conflict ... Leer más

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  • Wild History of Ancient Egypt: Pharaohs, Pyramids, Mummies, and the True Stories Your Teacher Skipped

    Journey Back 5,000 Years Into One of the World's Most Fascinating CivilizationsWhat if you could walk beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramids, decipher the secrets of hieroglyphs, witness the rise of powerful pharaohs, and uncover the everyday lives of the people who built one of history's greatest civilizations?Ancient Egypt brings this extraordinary world to life through vivid storytelling, ... Leer más

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  • Wild History of Greek Mythology

    Epic Heroes, Nightmarish Monsters, and Totally Unhinged Gods

    de Nathan Mercer ...
    You've heard the names — Zeus, Hercules, Medusa. But the myths they teach in school are the cleaned-up version. The real stories are stranger, messier, and way more ridiculous than anyone let on.Did you know the god of the sea once turned a man into a horse just because he lost a bet? That the most famous hero in Greece completed twelve impossible tasks — then accidentally poisoned himself with a ... Leer más

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  • The Empire Is the Tailor

    Ten Famous Garments and the Conquests That Cut Them

    You got dressed this morning without knowing you were putting on an empire.The jeans gone soft at the knee. The watch on your wrist. The waterproof coat by the door, the ring on your finger, the heels at the back of the closet. Every one of them began as a weapon, a conquest, or a crime — and then quietly moved into your wardrobe.The Empire Is the Tailor tells the true story of ten everyday ... Leer más

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  • Michelangelo vs. Leonardo

    The True Story of How the Renaissance's Greatest Grudge Match Happened Under One Roof

    Two titans. One room. A duel history tried to erase.Florence, 1504. The city commissions the two greatest artists alive to paint the facing walls of its grandest hall — at the same time, in full view of each other. Leonardo da Vinci: fifty-two, famous, untouchable. Michelangelo Buonarroti: twenty-nine, and hungry to dethrone him. They already despise each other. Now the Republic has handed them ... Leer más

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  • Buddha

    The Middle Way and The Life and Philosophy of the Buddha

    He was a prince who had everything. One night, he walked away from all of it.Twenty-five centuries ago, a young man slipped out of his palace, cut off his hair, and vanished into the dark to answer a single question: why do we suffer — and can it end? What he found would shape the inner lives of half a billion people, with no god, no holy book, and no promise of heaven.The Middle Way, Book Four of ... Leer más

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  • SPICE

    Eight Stories of the Flavors That Seasoned Empires

    For a pinch of flavor, the world went to war.The salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sugar sitting in your kitchen cost a few dollars. For most of history, each was worth more than its weight in gold — and men killed, sailed, enslaved, and built empires to control them.Spice, Book Three of Materials That Changed the World, tells eight true stories of the flavors that seasoned empires. Follow a single ... Leer más

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  • Weather of Empire

    How Shifting Climate Built Empires, Toppled Dynasties, and Redrew the Map of History

    Empires don't only fall to armies. They fall to the sky.For ten thousand years, the weather has been the quietest and deadliest force in human history. A few degrees of warming built Rome. A few degrees of cooling starved dynasties, emptied cities, and toppled the mightiest empires on earth — and the people living through it almost never knew why.Weather of Empire, Book Two of The Forces That ... Leer más

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