World History Books

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-…

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compel…

"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."…