More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy, Philip CogganThere are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe. More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long distance trade obsidian blades that made their way from what

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a princess with a rebel heart

'--and I do it

hopes for a favorable marriage

idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home - something she most definitely does not believe - only to find herself the star of America's best-loved TV cooking show

Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date

and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod

By turns lyrical

That's when I make a promise

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

''An extraordinary diary'' The Times

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