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Food that travelledJapan from Nara to MeijiThe Scientific RevolutionLaws written downEpidemics that changed historyColours and pigmentsThe Axial AgeHow English came to beA history of numbersHow stories were written downExploring the universeVolcanoes and earthquakesGames and sport through historyInstruments through timeMoney and coinsWatching nature: from naturalists to conservationKeeping timeClean water and public healthForgers and fakesMosaics from Rome to RavennaStones from the skyEncyclopedias from Pliny to WikipediaHaunted housesWhy we dreamFast food from Pompeii to the drive-throughGraffiti and street artEveryday life in PompeiiThe gods of EgyptThe Grand TourIbn Battuta's thirty years on the roadShakespeare's afterlivesAstrology and the horoscopeConstantinople: city of emperorsThe day of restSeed banks and the crops we might loseGreat siegesVenice, the city on the waterHurricanes, typhoons and cyclonesSumer and the first citiesFlood storiesManga and animeTragedy and comedy in ancient AthensThe Peloponnesian WarMalaria: the oldest enemyChess from walrus-ivory kings to Deep BlueThe history of the toiletHow languages name coloursJudge Dee and forensics in old ChinaCookbooks and the recipes that survivedJeans: from miners' trousers to everyone'sThe great mosquesThe maqam: music of the Arab and Persian worldsHow the world began: creation storiesShinto: the gods of JapanGods of the Aztecs and MayaHow gunpowder changed warThe Portuguese sea road to IndiaJapan's age of warring statesHow chillies conquered the worldSpanish and Portuguese across the worldPrester John, the king who never wasEthiopia: the unconquered kingdomHow Christianity became a world religionNew religions of the modern ageThe Cold WarThe CrusadesPattern and the geometry of Islamic artTiles, symmetry and quasicrystalsThe first century of IslamMud, stone and coral: building in AfricaWhen money dies: hyperinflationGrowing old: pensions and old ageComets: from omens to iceWhere rivers come fromInsurance and the pricing of riskEarth's magnetismThe monsoonLiving with fire: how towns fought itKabuki and the theatre of EdoDaily life in Edo JapanNintendo and Japan's games industryWoven stories: tapestry from Bayeux to MorrisWallpaper and the decorated homePoisoners and the birth of toxicologyPoison in the pot: food adulterationMake-up and cosmeticsArts and Crafts: the revolt against the machineHow languages die and come backHow skyscrapers went upThe assembly lineHow the weekend was inventedThe Amazon rainforestHow the car took overCompany townsThe rubber boomEl Dorado: the city of goldCongolese rumba: Africa's dance musicBoxing from the prize ring to AliThe heart: from Harvey to transplantsHow museums beganMercy: pardons and amnestiesWhat is the mind?Can everything be computed?Talking to machinesThe kitchen: from hearth to fitted kitchenThe war on drugsTelevision newsAddiction: from gin craze to the brainTea: the leaf that built empiresPolitical cartoonsTaxes and tax revoltsHair: wigs, perms and politicsSugar: a sweet and bitter historyPuppets around the worldLife in a medieval villageWhat a day's work is worth: the minimum wageRich and poor: a history of inequalityWho invented calculus?CounterfeitersHow we organised colourSecret knowledge: Hermes, Kabbalah and the occultRainbowsDo animals matter?Consciousness: the hard problemThe sizes of infinityNot eating meat: vegetarianism through historyNonviolence from Jain monks to GandhiIndia's classical theatreSanskrit and the languages of IndiaHow Buddhism crossed AsiaChasing piThe Indo-European discoveryBoole, binary and the logic of switchesWhat makes us happyThe Underground RailroadThe American civil rights movementThe Harlem RenaissanceThe Haitian RevolutionVotes for womenSlave narrativesThe Benin Bronzes: art, loot and returnHow the Polynesians found the PacificKingdoms of AfricaThe Atlantic slave trade and its abolitionTattoos: a history of marked skinMāui and the myths of the PacificCaptain Cook's three voyagesVenus, the hellish twinThe Māori and AotearoaSport and apartheid

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