A History of the World in Seven Cheap ThingsNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other

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Charlotte is forced to confront the consequences of the heartbreaking decision she took only a few months earlier

By the time the war ended in May 1945

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The best way to attract wildlife to your garden is to build a pond

drove-roads and sea-paths that form part of a vast network of routes which criss-cross Britain

Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues

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who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer

and Chief Inspector Armand Gamanche and his colleagues from the Sûreté du Québec are at a loss to explain why anyone should want to kill her