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The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
Long Shot My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

Long Shot My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

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Author: Azad Cudi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland...
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

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Author: Stephen Grey (Broadleaf Capital International Australia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

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Author: Michael Sheridan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter A superb new...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

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Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

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Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

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Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future

How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future

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Author: Steven Levitsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Two Harvard professors explain the stages in which governments collapse - and how we can prevent this Democracies can...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

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Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

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Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
The Monk of Mokha

The Monk of Mokha

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Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Took On The Islamic State

The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Took On The Islamic State

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Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered...
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic

Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic

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Author: Fintan O'Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 300 The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic church to dominate its civil society and...
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

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Author: Seymour M. Hersh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

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Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Into the Fire

Into the Fire

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Author, Glenn Patterson Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 240 Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer... 'I tore through it' Erin Kelly 'Perfect storytelling' Victoria Selman 'A wicked plot'...