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A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...
Graft: How to Smash Life
GET OUT THERE, GIVE IT 110% AND ABSOLUTELY SMASH IT!. Tom Skinner is a grafter. Born and bred in Romford, he's spent a lifetime on market stalls and has always...
Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy
In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in...
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
A Clone of Your Own?
Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In...
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...
Extrasolar Planets
This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one...
Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Japanese-born artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's career and art evolved from innocence and early success to complexity and disillusionment. Born in Japan in 1889, Kuniyoshi arrived in the United States as a...
Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-in particular it has brought radical...
Everything Anxiety Ever Told You Is a Lie: *Well, almost everything!
A practical and therapeutic guide to managing anxiety, written specifically for those aged 14-25 by a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults. Everything...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning [...]
Axiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category Learn to make creativity work for your career.Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions,...
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration...
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
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Author: Stephen Brumwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 514 Winner of the prestigious George Washington Book Prize, George Washington is a vivid recounting of the formative years and military career...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition
Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....
High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson
Author: Roger S. Durham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
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...
A Book of Verse
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness were...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
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 Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the...
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945
On Luneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally...
The Compound Effect (10th Anniversary Edition): Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
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Do you want success? More success than you have now? And even more success than you ever imagined possible? That is what this book is about. Achieving it. No gimmicks....
Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic...
Still Standing: The third Matt Standing thriller from the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series
The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said to have committed suicide in Thailand,...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest...
Snow Food: Warming Winter Alpine Dishes
In Snow Food, chef and skier, Lindor Wink, shares 70 of his favourite winter dishes. Inspired from the heart of snowy alpine winters, Lindor's recipes are simple and easy for...
West Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica
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** WINNER Fortnum and Masons Cookery Book of the year 2023 **** WINNER Jane Grigson Award 2022 **** Shortlisted IACP Cookbook awards 2023 **A beautiful cookbook that celebrates the wonderfully...
Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants
A sweeping history of the origins, development, and future of herbaria and their role in plant consternation. The American Gardener Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi...
What's Your Era?: A celebration of Taylor Swift
As Taylor Swift releases her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poet's Department, catch up on all her previous eras through the ultimate fan book. Are you a Fearless enthusiast or...
Dogs & Us
Discover the inner workings of our relationship with dogs in this gentle, informed and fun look at the reasons why we love our four-legged friends. Many of us know the...
Cats & Us
Discover the inner workings of our relationship with cats in this gentle, informed and fun look at the reasons why we love our four-legged friends. Many of us know the...
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
"A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick...
The Natural Facelift: Sculpt your face at home in just 5 minutes a day
Give yourself the gift of an all-natural facelift from the comfort of your own home.Using a combination of facial exercise, yoga and massage, you can achieve a brighter complexion, improve...
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was...
Assassin's Apprentice Volume 1: The Graphic Novel (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
The first installment of Robin Hobb's New York Times bestselling fantasy epic, The Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy), comes to life in comics form! When the illegitimate son of a royal...
Oz Clarke's Story of Wine: 8000 Years, 100 Bottles
Uncork a whole new take on the fascinating story of wine, captivatingly told by everyone's favourite wine expert Oz Clarke. This fully updated edition takes us through the riveting twists...
Pokemon Where's Eevee? An Evolutions Search and Find Book
Find Eevee and friends in this ultimate search and find! Eevee is a special Pokemon as it can evolve into 8 different Pokemon! Find them all in every scene of...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
The Brick of Dad Puns: Over 200 Pun-ishingly Hilarious Jokes
Did you hear about the two radios that got married? The reception was fantastic. This cheesy-but-grate book is jam-packed with unbearable puns that are so bad, they're good.This collection features...
The Brick of Dad Jokes: Ultimate Collection of Cringe-Worthy Puns and One-Liners
The Brick of Dad Jokes is the ultimate collection of puns, quips, and corny one-liners that is sure to get eyes rolling.Why do melons have weddings? Because they cantaloupe! The...
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
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Author: E.A. Loew
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 424
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
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Author: Nick Romeo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
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Author: Patrick Symmes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of "Chasing Che, " the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political...
Hammering Hank: How the Media Made Henry Aaron
Author: Mark Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 On April 8, 1999, at Turner Field in Atlanta, Major League Baseball celebrated the 25th anniversary of Henry Aaron's 715th home...