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Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times 'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy...
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the
A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, 'Wired' writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower,...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. The book is a...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
Every Move You Make
From secretive online followers to jealous ex-lovers and obsessed admirers through to random strangers and crazed criminals, this unnerving book will provide an insight into the minds of stalkers, and...
History'S Most Daring Moments: Extraordinary Stories of Daring and
The human psyche, when confornted by the all-but-impossible, can produce the most extraordinary reactions---acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, endurance and sheer grit that in many instances remain unbelievable. Whether these are...
The Origins of Modern Science: From Antiquity to the Scientific
The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and...
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...
The Cambridge World History
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part...
The Cambridge World History
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of...
The Cambridge World History
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of...
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period...
The History Question: Who Owns the Past?: Quarterly Essay 23
In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History
Do we really care about each other less than we did in the past? This myth-destroying book shows that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less, not more,...
The Almost Complete History of the World: 75 incredible events from
Recorded history is rich with events that have changed the course of human experience that have rippled through the centuries, and still others that rumble on today. Here in one...
Fifty Key Thinkers on History
This is a guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered takes in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
A Hundred Million Trees
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Author: Brian HealyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, Auckland, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book discusses the extensive planting of trees, focusing on the scale and...
Europe Emerges: Transition Toward An Industrial World-Wide Society 600-1750
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Author: Robert L. ReynoldsBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book chronicles Europe's significant transformation during a pivotal period. It examines the...
Contractually Wed
Her high-stakes proposal: 'Marry me and you'll have won.' Greek magnate Apollo Galanis amassed his fortune with one purpose: the ruin of the Shetty dynasty. His final gambit? Gaining control...
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's
The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy...
Uppity Women of the Renaissance
A riotous take on an age that turns out to be as rich with towering female figures as it was with Rembrandts, Rabelais and Sir Walter Raleigh. The author showcases...
Chamber Divers
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. On the beaches...
Chamber Divers
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. On the beaches...
An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations
The Atlas of Interpersonal Situations provides a systematic theoretical account for understanding the impact of situations on patterns of social interaction. Structured around descriptions of twenty-one of the most common...
D-Day
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The Tudors in 100 Objects
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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
From the author of Work Won't Love You Back , a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss,...
Transformations Vol 2: Modernism and Aboriginalty
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Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime
'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe FernA!ndez-Armesto, author of 1492'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply...
1942: Britain at the Brink
'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit 'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Sheds intriguing light on...
The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city...
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914
The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to...
Keep You Close
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Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
For Profit: A History of Corporations
An "eloquent" ( Economist ) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis- a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with the natural world. 'A powerfully...
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and...
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There
A startling new oral history of the turning point of World War 2- D-Day 6 June 1944- the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into...
A Brief History of Mankind
A Brief History of Mankind is the thrilling introduction to the big ideas in history combining the latest research in history and archaeology to look for answers to some of...