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WORST JOBS IN HISTORY - SERIES 2  

Tony Robinson (of BlackAdder fame) gets his nose firmly back to the historical grindstone in the second series of The Worst Jobs in History.British history has only happened...

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business  

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William...

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won (Vintage)  

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris...

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities  

A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view.Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew...

A Concise History of Germany (Cambridge Concise Histories) , Second Edition  

The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands has supplied material for a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. This second edition spans the early...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)  

More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity of its history and culture. In this sumptuously illustrated...

A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)  

In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last...