Incoming Resources
- The geography of genius, a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, Eric Weiner
- History of the world map by map, foreword by Peter Snow
- The voyages of Captain James Cook, the illustrated accounts of three epic Pacific voyages, James Cook ; Nicholas Thomas, editor ; from the writings of James Cook, John Hawkesworth, Georg Forster, and James King
- Wonderland, how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
- Age of anger, a history of the present, Pankaj Mishra
- 10 things you might not know about nearly everything, a collection of fascinating historical, scientific and cultural trivia about people, places and things, Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer, Chicago Tribune
- Archaeology, the essential guide to our human past, general editor Paul Bahn ; foreword by Brian Fagan
- The confidence trap, a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present, David Runciman
- Political order and political decay, from the Industrial Revolution to the globalization of democracy, Francis Fukuyama
- Civil wars, a history in ideas, David Armitage
- Battles that changed history
- Fallen glory, the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings, James Crawford
- The secret history of World War II, spies, code breakers & covert operations, Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop ; foreword by Kenneth W. Rendell
- The Silk Roads, a new history of the world, Peter Frankopan
- The course of history, ten meals that changed the world, Struan Stevenson ; recipes by Tony Singh, MBE