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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

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In the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal-not just its practical policies...
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

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The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...
An Introduction to the EU Legal Order

An Introduction to the EU Legal Order

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Carefully structured and supported with a wealth of examples, Elise Muir provides a clear, concise introduction to the EU legal order. Drawing upon her years of teaching experience, Muir outlines...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

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"A gripping and powerful account of what prison is like and what it takes to make it through... Make sure you read it." Kimberley Chambers Widely known in the criminal...
Tokyo Underworld: The fast times and hard life of an American Gangster

Tokyo Underworld: The fast times and hard life of an American Gangster

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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever...
The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

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Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates,...
Think of Me

Think of Me

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A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small...
The Postwar World

The Postwar World

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An introduction to world history since 1945, this traces the major national and international developments of the period. It is intended for students from the Sixth Form up and for...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the

My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the

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As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

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A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
The Ballad of Les Darcy

The Ballad of Les Darcy

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An Australian hero torn between family and country 'Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him.' that was the message trained...
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

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A beautiful new hardback special edition of an iconic and timeless classic, celebrating 90 years of the world's favourite Nanny. The original and classic story of the world's most famous...
Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India

Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India

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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan

The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan

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The Hatter's Ghosts

The Hatter's Ghosts

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A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists

100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists

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A new anthology of 100 years of artists', film makers' and architects' manifestos In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony...
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the

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Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. 'Gripping' Economist 'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times 'Riveting' Financial Times...
Rememberings

Rememberings

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An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's...
The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

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Two brothers venture across 1950s America in the absorbing New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Gentleman in Moscow THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

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The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival. THE...
The Western Front: A History of the First World War

The Western Front: A History of the First World War

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\"The best modern single-volume history of the war on the Western Front\" (The Spectator), by the acclaimed author of the bestselling Passchendaele In the annals of military history, the Western...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the...
The World After Gaza

The World After Gaza

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From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
Birds as Individuals

Birds as Individuals

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Classic nature writing for bird lovers - a portrait of Britain's ordinary garden birds, and the woman who opened her doors to them. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary...
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

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An anarchic, intimate, lushly illustrated look at the clothes and lives of the Bloomsbury Group Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

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Iron Curtain is an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning, and a haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be. Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year'...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went

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The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
Orientalism

Orientalism

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The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been...
Stoner: A Novel

Stoner: A Novel

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The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend. This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic....
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

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Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the...
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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'Enthralling' GUARDIAN     'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson     Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature    ...
All Us Sinners: A beautifully written crime debut set in the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper

All Us Sinners: A beautifully written crime debut set in the shadow of

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'Powerful, provocative, beautiful and unforgettable. All Us Sinners is a chilling, moving, majestic debut' --- CHRIS WHITAKERLeeds, 1977. A chill lies over the city: sex workers are being murdered by...
The 1989 Coup d'Etat in Paraguay: The End of a Long Dictatorship, 1954-1989

The 1989 Coup d'Etat in Paraguay: The End of a Long Dictatorship,

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The year 1989 was crucial for Paraguay. After a long period of 35 years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was finally overthrown by a violent coup d'etat. In a sort...
Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of secrets between them

Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of

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'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him... Picasso's Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight' Kate Quinn, New York Times...
London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

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London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

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'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art

Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art

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The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER 2024 READING LIST'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS ___________'If you...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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