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Mitch Albom rediscovered his college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited Mitch every Tuesday, …
Hobsbawm's brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great
'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant …
The Sunday Times bestseller, with a new introduction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very …
Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great
* A magisterial history book on why some nations are rich and others poor.
A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.
This is the story of a cultural phenomenon which embraced Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, and more. Documenting a time of …
The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great
A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the …