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Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the

Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the

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From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...
Mediterra: Recipes from the islands and shores of the Mediterranean

Mediterra: Recipes from the islands and shores of the Mediterranean

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Across the Mediterranean, from Spain to Morocco, via Italy, Sicily, Greece and Lebanon, one delicious food influence gives way to the next. The whole region is a rich seam of...
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

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FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times , Financial Times , Spectator ,...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating

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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution

The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution

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In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system...
The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements,

The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements,

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The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine - Updated Edition

The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine - Updated Edition

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A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking history of Ukraine's war against Russia, by The Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller 'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for

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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

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To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

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How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created

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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

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How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined,...
Power and the Palace: The explosive new royal book that reveals what

Power and the Palace: The explosive new royal book that reveals what

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'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry

The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry

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The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power?...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

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Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full...
50 Romantic Havens: In The Mediterranean

50 Romantic Havens: In The Mediterranean

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Falling in love with warm sparkling water, clear as crystal, seductive as Calypso snow-capped mountains glistening in the rising sun, narrow cobbled lanes, crumbling ruins overlooking ancient landscapes, deserted coves...
England Revisited

England Revisited

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The book titled England Revisited by the author John Seymour. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space

Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space

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As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's

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When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...
Iran: Dictatorship and Development

Iran: Dictatorship and Development

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It is quite possible that before too long the Iranian people will chase the Pahlavi dictator and his associates from power... So wrote historian Fred Halliday in the conclusion to...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

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At the Israel America Council's national conference in 2018, Nancy Pelosi spoke these words: 'If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment...
British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90

British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90

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From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...
Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots

Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots

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The book titled Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots by the author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

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This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

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Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying

Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying

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The book titled Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag

Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag

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___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

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The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years

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Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...
The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

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Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...
Francis Bacon & the Loss of Self

Francis Bacon & the Loss of Self

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Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

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These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
Recollections at Play: a Life in Australian Theatre

Recollections at Play: a Life in Australian Theatre

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Sumner offers numerous, sometimes surprising, insights into all aspects of theatre life: acting, directing and the production process, the question of standards, the role of government, and of course the...
Has Modernism Failed?

Has Modernism Failed?

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An art critic confronts the current art milieu, characterizing it as being without purpose or moral authority, and questions whether allegedly radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more...
American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

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In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during...
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

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The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can...
The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will...
French Painters, Russian Collectors

French Painters, Russian Collectors

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Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...
The Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade

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From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

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A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

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The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India

Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India

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The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

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The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

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A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...