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Beneath the Waves: A Global History of Diving is the ultimate deep dive into humankind’s relationship with the ocean—from ancient pearl divers to modern saturation missions and scuba exploration. Blending compelling storytelling, first-hand accounts, and over 2,000 years of history, Oliver Greyson takes listeners on a sweeping, global journey beneath the surface of our world’s waters.

Top 10 Pirate Myths takes you beyond the Hollywood sparkle and storybook charm to uncover the surprising truths behind history’s most misunderstood outlaws. Drawing on real historical records, maritime journals, and eyewitness accounts, Jasmine Dyggan separates fact from fantasy and reveals the remarkable human stories buried beneath centuries of myth.

Quando si parla di storia, il primo pensiero va quasi sempre ai grandi eventi, agli imperi, alle guerre, ai potenti che dominano i manuali scolastici e le fonti storiografiche. Ma, guardando oltre la superficie, tra le pieghe del tempo compaiono anche le persone comuni che spesso sono state protagoniste di avventure ed emozioni degne di essere scoperte e raccontate. Proprio per questo Costantino Andrea De Luca - giovane storico e divulgatore - riporta alla luce quelle "vite senza nome" che hanno attraversato i secoli e che presentano incredibili somiglianze con la contemporaneità.

A sweeping history of humanity's most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities, and people themselves. From tiny pit–houses in the Levant and Mesoamerica thousands of years ago to soaring skyscrapers in Dubai, New York, and Shanghai today, Dwelling on Earth takes...

The vast expanse, unknown depths, dangers, and mysteries of the sea have led mariners to create fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters for centuries; it is a world strange and other to the experience of land dwellers. This body of lore has served to bond nautical communities together around the world and throughout history, with international stories fusing with local tales. The Perilous Deep explores why these stories were told, how they were repeated and mutated, and what fears, anxieties, and desires they helped to express.

Brought to you by Penguin. A vivid portrait of the world in 1966, centred around the storied World Cup tournament and its backdrop, published to mark the 60th anniversary. 1966, with London declared ‘a swinging city’ and John Lennon proclaiming the Beatles ‘more popular than Jesus’, the...

Before gods had names, temples had altars, and books were called holy, we were staring into the storm and searching for meaning. From prehistoric burials and animistic spirits to sacred texts, televangelists, cults, algorithms, and Instagram astrology, Religion 101 traces the full arc of human faith in all its glory and violence. In this punchy history, JJ breaks down the world’s oldest force: not by preaching, but by exploring. You’ll meet prophets, kings, gods, heretics, influencers, and follow belief as it evolves into systems of power, identity, community, and content.

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Brought to you by Penguin. A sweeping, resonant, revelatory history of how the expropriation of property made the modern world, by a brilliant young historian Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent...

Brought to you by Penguin. The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth Roger Dooley wasn’t looking for the...

Durante muchos años, la literatura, y ahora los medios de comunicación, han transmitido una imagen de la piratería que poco o nada tiene que ver con la realidad. En estas páginas, Javier Martínez-Pinna ha sometido a crítica esta visión para mostrarnos las atrocidades perpetradas por estos monstruos (Henry Morgan, El Olonés, Roque el Brasileño o Barbanegra) que hicieron del asesinato, la tortura y el crimen su forma de vida más característica.

Italy was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by the Western Allies during World War II. Now, John S. D. Eisenhower offers a new look at the Italian campaign, emphasizing the Anzio offensive—an operation pushed by Winston Churchill that fell largely to American troops to carry out. It was visualized as an amphibious landing of two Allied divisions behind German lines that would force the Wehrmacht to evacuate all of Italy.

Race isn’t real. But it changed the world. This book is the full history of how, and why, we made it up. From ancient tribal instincts to Enlightenment pseudoscience, from slavery and empire to redlining and algorithmic bias, Black and White walks through the invention of race as a system: where it started, how it spread, and why it still shapes everything. Biology didn’t create race. Power did. And the only way to dismantle the system is to understand how it was built. Brutal, clear, and global in scope, Black and White is a bullet through the myth and a blueprint for seeing through the lie.

In the 50 years following the First Crusade, the Latin states in the East were consolidated, but there were also growing tensions and new challenges. Against this backdrop, the fall of the County of Edessa in December 1144 at the hands of Zengi, the atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, was a catastrophic event. Founded in 1098 by the future King Baldwin of Boulogne, Edessa was the first Crusader state, as well as the northernmost, weakest, and least populated.

Discover the impactful ways that climate and weather changed the very course of human history from the founder and chairman of AccuWeather! Join AccuWeather founder and chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers on a journey from the beginning of time to the modern day to see how weather and climate impacted world events throughout history, both the good and the bad.

The newest addition to Globe Pequot’s Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated that over 30,000 sailors have lost their lives in Great Lakes wrecks. For many, these icy, inland seas have become their final resting place, but their last moments live on as a part of maritime history.

Between 1885 and 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium orchestrated a genocide so brutal it shocked the world into silence. Under the guise of humanitarian mission, this seemingly gentle monarch transformed the Congo into his personal torture chamber, where millions died to fill his coffers with rubber profits.

Before there were banks, coins, or crash warnings — there was trust, trade, and the primal instinct of value. Economics 101 doesn’t teach you how to ace a test. It shows you how the entire game got built. From mammoth meat to crypto scams, feudal tithes to stock buybacks, this book walks you through the messy, mythological, totally human story of how money came to rule everything around us. It’s not about charts or jargon. It’s about why the world works the way it does — and what happens when the story of value starts to fall apart.

Beacon Manor, the grand generational estate she now owns, has long been in silence. But a storm is brewing—one that echoes a tragic night in 1870 when a ship vanished off the coast and a legacy of lies was lost to the sea. As Sam begins to sift through the artifacts and letters left behind, she’s pulled into a mystery that spans centuries, threatens her sense of identity, and reveals a bloodline tied to betrayal, resilience, and unspoken truths.

Why does Africa look like it was divided by a toddler with a ruler? Why does Canada still technically report to a king? Why does Chile look like a linguine noodle, and why is there a whole country inside Italy? This is not an atlas. This is the story of how the map got made — badly. From ancient empires to colonial chaos, from revolutions to real estate deals, The Borders Book takes you on a wild, bloody, and often ridiculous journey through the history of how every country on Earth got its shape. Some were forged in war. Others were drawn in pencil by people who’d never even been there.