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The Taste of Empire
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Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945
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Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Attrition: Fighting the First World War
Author: William PhilpottFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 340g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2015The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In...
Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II
Author: Lloyd GardnerFormat: Paperback, 133mm x 202mm, 305g, 262 pagesPublished: The New Press, United Kingdom, 2011In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an...
God's Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad
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Author: Richard A Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Examines how the military experience of three religious founders shaped their spiritual legacy. It is one of the more startling...
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim MurrayFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 261 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The History and Philosophy of Archeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking...
American Politics: A Graphic History
Author: Laura LockerFormat: Paperback, 175mm x 255mm, 525g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2018Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams...
Cult of Progress
Author: David OlusogaFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 230mm, 810g, 304 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...
Bowler of Gallipoli: Witness to the Anzac Legend
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100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
Author: Katie KnowlesFormat: Hardback, 186mm x 156mm, 580g, 224 pagesPublished: National Trust, United Kingdom, 2022The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and...
ENC OF GREAT IDEAS
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Past and Present: To Learn from History
Author: Erica BennerFormat: Hardback, 175mm x 246mm, 1120g, 376 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022How can our understanding of the past help to solve our present political or economic conditions and...
Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our Society
Author: Mattias HesserusFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 740g, 300 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives...
Obras Maestras del Museo Britanico
Author: J.D. HillFormat: Paperback, 215mm x 215mm, 960g, 288 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2013El Museo Britanico alberga varias de las colecciones mas extensas y magnificas del mundo, que...
Growth Recurring
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Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning
Author: Peter StanfordFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 570g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter FurtadoFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 360g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity...
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Author: Robert C DavisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 380g, 376 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis...
The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II
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A Guest of the Emperor
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I Kept on Dancing: A Life's Journey from Nazi Germany to the Lucky Country
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
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Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria
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Underwater Warriors: The Fighting History of Midget Submarines
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The Edge of the Sword
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Jackie After Jack
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How The World Ran Out Of Everything
Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time
Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
Author: Caroline Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of...
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
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Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
Author: Hugh Cecil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 938 'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
Living in Hope and History
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If This Should be Farewell: A Family Separated by War: the Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945
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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics,...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...