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A history of honey
Highlife: The sound of Ghana
Yiddish: A story of survival
A history of the restaurant
Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady
Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage
Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero
The Scythians: Masters of the steppe
The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power
Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer
Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer
John Harvey Kellogg: The ‘wellness’ pioneer
Indigo: the bluest blue
The Cat: In from the wild
Manuela Sáenz: South America’s revolutionary heroine
Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web
The history of opium
Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity
Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself
Einstein: Revolution in time and space
Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy
Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art
Coco Chanel: French style icon
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic
The Spartans: Ancient Greece’s fighting machine
Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria
Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug
Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician
James Watt: The power of steam
The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom
Cnut: England's Viking king
How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain
Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar
The Moon from Earth
Pearls: Treasures of the sea
Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods
Fado: Portuguese soul music
Queen Njinga of Angola: Fearless fighter
Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
Chess: a chequered history
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
Napoleon: From empire to exile
The spice trade: Selling the scents of luxury
Moomin Creator Tove Jansson
Anaesthesia: Unwrapping oblivion
Calouste Gulbenkian: The architect of Middle East oil
Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island
Lu Xun: Writing the story of New China
The talking drums of West Africa
The Top of the World
The Heel and the Sneaker
Goya: Seeking truth through art
Antigone: A drama of defiance
The Master and Margarita: Devilish satire
Fermentation: Ancient Food Alchemy
The Emergence of Modern Turkey
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Revealing the Gulag
The Iranian Coup of 1953: Overthrow of a Prime Minister
Diaghilev and the ballet revolution
Charlie Chaplin
Coal: a Burning Legacy
Lifting the lid: The history of the toilet
Calm in the chaos: The story of the Stoics
Cambodia's ancient Khmer Empire
Who was the real Cleopatra?
Karl Kraus: Austria’s fearless satirist
Cool: Sunglasses, style and American counter-culture
Frida Kahlo: A life in colour
The Jet Engine
Edgar Allan Poe: Master of horror
The Making of Modern Japan
The American author James Baldwin
The Acropolis: Cradle of democracy
Friedrich Engels: The Man Behind Karl Marx
Empress Nur Jahan: Leader of the Mughals
Waiting for Godot: The play that changed the rules of theatre
Christina of Sweden: Queen of surprises
Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Mark Twain: The 'father of American literature'
Pioneers of surgical hygiene
The invention of numbers
The life and works of William Blake
J. William Fulbright: Scholarships and Soft Power
The tales of Timbuktu
The piano: Hitting the right keys
Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist thinker for modern times
Catherine the Great of Russia
Material World: Making the Modern Factory
Machu Picchu: The secrets of a forgotten city
Plastic: How it Changed the World
Sugar: A Sweet Menace
What is Zoroastrianism?
Votes for Women: the Global Story
From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll
Lawrence of Arabia
Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
The original Goths
Dante’s Inferno: The poetry of Hell
Magellan: First Man Round the Globe?