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The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

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A chronicling of CIA operative Edward Lansdale, this biography definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam war. 'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book Review In this biography of Edward...
Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel. Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as...
Murder Under Her Skin: an irresistible murder mystery from the

Murder Under Her Skin: an irresistible murder mystery from the

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The perfect murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood. 'Spotswood understands that [...] spending time with unforgettable characters is paramount.' - New York Times 'A loving, intricately...
White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach

White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach

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This book guides students as they explore how white identities are forged using both sociological and psycho-social ideas. Whiteness has traditionally been seen as 'ethnically transparent' - the marker against...
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

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Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
The Box in the Woods

The Box in the Woods

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After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author...
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's...
Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...
The Lost Child

The Lost Child

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A sweeping dual-timeline novel from the bestselling author of The Girl from Bletchley Park . All she wanted was a child of her own... 1912. As the steamship Carpathia takes...
Black People in the British Empire

Black People in the British Empire

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'Fantastic ... the most important book on Black British history' - Akala Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells...
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

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Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history....
An American Childhood

An American Childhood

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" An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different...
Frontieres Invisibles - Invisible Borders

Frontieres Invisibles - Invisible Borders

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The exhibition catalogue Frontieres Invisibles features the work of more than seventy European artists. The exhibition of the same name in Lille is an invitation by lille3000 to consider the...
Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

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Swiss Made is devoted to the work of fifteen Swiss artists, each of whom has made a permanent impression in the field of contemporary art. Their work is included in...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

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How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue...
The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II

The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II

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In this warm and witty biography of Elizabeth II in her jubilee year, Sunday Times bestseller Ian Lloyd reveals the people, events and themes that have shaped her life and...
The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

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Have you wondered what the difference is between an ocean liner and a cruise ship? Are you amazed at the size of the biggest cruise ships? Perhaps you are keen...
Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess

Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess

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The first definitive biography of the queen's aunt, a sister to two kings and a pioneering member of the royal family, who redefined the role of a princess for the...
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

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Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
1970s London: Discovering the Capital

1970s London: Discovering the Capital

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Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London...
Authors Take Sides On Iraq

Authors Take Sides On Iraq

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This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
Vintage 1954

Vintage 1954

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"The very quintessence of French romance...' - The Times After drinking a bottle of vintage Beaujolais, a group of Parisian neighbours are transported back in time to 1954. When Hubert...
I Survived Graphic Novel 1: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic,

I Survived Graphic Novel 1: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic,

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A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 , with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Haus Studio George...
Where The Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese Australian Story

Where The Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese Australian Story

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A family's sacrifice - A nation's struggle A family's sacrifice ... A nation's struggle In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families set out on perilous journeys...
The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958: Who Wrote Them and What

The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958: Who Wrote Them and What

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Discover how the most successful ads came into being, explained in their creators' own words. Illustrated products include Rolls Royce automobiles, Lux Soap, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, and many others. Styles...
Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an

Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an

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In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of...
Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

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Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban, suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by human figures. Her...
Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour

Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour

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The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. This beautiful, full-colour book presents the development of passenger ships across the twentieth...
Motorcycles We Loved in the 1990s

Motorcycles We Loved in the 1990s

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Everyone's favourite 1990s' motorcycles in this lavishly illustrated little book. The 1990s was the last 'golden era' of motorcycling in Britain certainly for today's nostalgia-driven 50-something bikers. Ground-breaking sports bikes...
Flight Craft 22: Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Flight Craft 22: Mitsubishi A6M Zero

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The quality of Japanese aircraft came as an unpleasant surprise to the Allies at the outbreak of the Pacific War, and it was personified in one type, the Mitsubishi A6M...
Remembering Steam: The End of British Rail Steam in Photographs

Remembering Steam: The End of British Rail Steam in Photographs

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Commemorating the anniversary of the end of steam railway traction in Britain. Fifty years ago, main line steam in Britain ceased to exist, the last official date being 11 August...
Cars We Loved in the 1990s

Cars We Loved in the 1990s

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The 1980s car era had been brash and loud but the 1990s that followed was markedly more sober, stylish and sophisticated. A period when safety and durability improved... even though...
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither?

Global Governance: Why? What? Whither?

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Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence...
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
Inside the Arab Revolution

Inside the Arab Revolution

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Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

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Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

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The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

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Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

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The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis

The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis

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John Gielgud: An Actor's Life

John Gielgud: An Actor's Life

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A celebration of the life of John Gielgud through interviews and personal accounts. 'A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth's John Gielgud: An Actor's Life Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem...