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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the p

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world

A unique, highly readable approach to the environmental crisis, with alternating chapters outlining the effects on society if left unchecked, and the radical ac

260 million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst--the end-Permian extinction--wiping out nearly every sp

Like a Fox to a Swallow is an intensely personal story of an estranged family, and the struggle of its women to redefine their existence and take control of the