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Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope.

An illuminating look at the transatlantic, transgender community that shaped the history and study of sexuality.

Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic?

This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize–winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know.

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and

Shortlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize

There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics.

The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeous biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée - the composer of O Canada - and the tumult of 19th-centu

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of chil

Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination.

The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers.

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley.

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of

! groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations.