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Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself

Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself

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This book will help you understand how the superpowers grew and vied for dominance, and how the balance was lost. All the important aspects of the war are covered, from...
Trump/Russia: a definitive history

Trump/Russia: a definitive history

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Nothing For Tears

Nothing For Tears

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Towards the end of the Second World War, Lali Horstmann and her husband Freddy, a retired diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house with a...
Marx and Marxism

Marx and Marxism

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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary [...]

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish...
Prince of Spies

Prince of Spies

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

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The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

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An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories

Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories

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The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in songs, stories, photographs and tributes.Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Since he left us, Archie...
Vita and the Birds

Vita and the Birds

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A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Dinah Jefferies and Kate Mosse.'A poignant page-turning story, beautifully written' Leonora Nattrass, author of Blue Water'Hugely evocative and beautifully written' Anna Mazzola,...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

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The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran

The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]

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The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

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This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Lemay

Lemay

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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

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King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

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This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]

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In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
James Moore: Photographs 1962 - 2006

James Moore: Photographs 1962 - 2006

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American fashion photographer James Moore (1936-2006) was an influential voice in mid-20th-century fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar during its 1960s heyday under the leadership of legendary editor Carmel Snow....
Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1014

Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1014

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This generously illustrated volume focuses on the poignant friendship of Franz Marc and August Macke, two innovative members of the Blue Rider group. During the five years Franz Marc and...
James Ensor

James Ensor

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(Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch / Englisch)Der belgische Maler und Grafiker James Ensor (1860-1949) nimmt in der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts einen besonderen Rang ein. Als "Maler der Masken" kategorisiert, stilisierte er...
Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

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She was known as "the girl with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met...
Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

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The extraordinary story of the loss of a U.S. plane with a live nuclear bomb on it during the Vietnam War in 1965, and the subsequent cover-up. On 5 December...
Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926-1966

Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The [...]

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George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the story of the legendary Beatles producer. The first of two volumes, MAXIMUM VOLUME traces Martin's early life, from...
Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte Dell'Industria

Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte [...]

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The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe

Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]

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From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

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How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

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World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

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On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new [...]

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She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's 50th...
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s

Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement [...]

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"A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle."-The New York Times Book Review A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Godley

Godley

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A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF)...
A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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This is the first systematically comparative and historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America, examining business organizing and political activity over the last century in...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text

Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text

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This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

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The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

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George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative...
K Blows Top

K Blows Top

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Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

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Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook

Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook

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An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life-its charming culture and sublime food-captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompanied by more than 100 visually...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope

The Other Half of Augusta Hope

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Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award'A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion' GUARDIAN*JOANNA GLEN'S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW* Augusta Hope has never felt like...
Crisis

Crisis

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We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
The Diary of a Secret Royal

The Diary of a Secret Royal

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The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country, most of the seabed and more money than anyone...