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Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
by Sheldon Garon

Frank Trentmann on the changing history of thrift across the globe

Presenting History
by Peter J Beck

Rob Skinner considers how academics connect with the public

Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years
by Louise Foxcroft

Peter Atkins is left wanting more from a retrospective of dieting trends

Pepys’s London: Everyday Life in London 1650–1703
by Stephen Porter

Pauline Croft reads a survey of London life as experienced by the 17th-century’s best-known diarist

The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
by Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Hallie Rubenhold reviews a thoughtful analysis of the period when sex became a private matter

100 Ideas that Changed the World
by Jheni Osman

Rob Attar enjoys a lively compendium of some of mankind's greatest discoveries

Ten Popes Who Shook the World
by Eamon Duffy

Jonathan Wright savours a breezy rundown of some of the most influential bishops of Rome

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
by Stephen Greenblatt

Robert Black is disappointed by the arguments advanced in a new analysis of the origins of the Renaissance

Democratic Enlightenment
by Jonathan Israel

Justin Champion follows the ideological battles of the Enlightenment

Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
by Susie Harries

Peter Draper considers a biography of the popular historian and writer who devoted himself to English architecture