Up Close and Personal - Microhistories

Ever been so interested in a topic that you wished you could put it under a microscope and see it in splendid detail? Microhistories let you do just that. They're adventures through every aspect of a subject letting you understand it from the inside out. History buffs and curious readers alike will relish these technicolour portraits.

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Up Close and Personal - Microhistories

Ever been so interested in a topic that you wished you could put it under a microscope and see it in splendid detail? Microhistories let you do just that. They're adventures through every aspect of a subject letting you understand it from the inside out. History buffs and curious readers alike will relish these technicolour portraits.

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The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator
Winegard, Timothy C.
Paper Book
**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* "Hugely impressive, a major work."--NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing...
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book   The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The making of the OED was one of the...
The rise and fall of the dinosaurs : a new history of a lost world
Brusatte, Stephen
Paper Book
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller * Goodreads Choice Awards ...
Salt : a world history
Kurlansky, Mark.
Paper Book
Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a word used casually in expressions ("salt of the earth," take it with a grain of salt") without...
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