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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped...
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of
The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...
History of English Churches in 100 Objects
Published in collaboration with the National Churches Trust, this fascinating book is a sumptuous and authoritative photographic history of churches in England, as told through the objects inside them. Arranged...
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II
'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping A sparkling celebration of...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...
Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas
Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 - the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal. Over nearly 200 years these stocky...
Francesco's Kitchen
Francesco da Mosto follows his bestselling books on Venice and Italy with his personal quest for the authentic flavours and food of Venice. In this superbly illustrated book Francesco invites...
Jazz: An Illustrated History
A real gem - the history of jazz, beautifully illustrated with more than 200 illustrations Ken Burns and geoffrey Ward bring us the history of the first American music, from...
Lambeth Palace: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury and Their
Lambeth Palace has been the London home of the Archbishops of Canterbury for almost one thousand years. Archaeologist Timothy Tatton-Brown has a particular interest in ecclesiastical buildings. This work examines...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Dinner with the Devil
In 1896 a small group of Melbourne's first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give 'poor women the opportunity of being treated...
Humanity's Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne
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Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Fascism: A Warning
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Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Terra Nova: Ambition, jealousy and simmering rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
'A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.' - Peter Hillary, mountaineer...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its
This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. ** Challenger- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on...
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks
A fully revised and updated edition of the most approachable introduction to the beginnings of philosophy Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a...
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
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Messrs Hoare Bankers: A history of the Hoare banking dynasty
Of the many family banks founded in Restoration England, Hoare's Bank is the only one that continues - by adapting to the new circumstances of every generation - as an...
A Brief History of the Freemasons
The history of the Freemasons has often been shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717, with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London, the Freemasons have been a power...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth
In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives. By turning critical attention...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb...
Tent Show: Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players
Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...
Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century...
War: Past, Present and Future
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What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality...
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
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The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness
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Great Discoveries in Medicine: From Ayurveda to X-rays, Cancer to Covid
Author: William BynumFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and practice, from...
The Guinness Book of Military Blunders
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The Complete Illustrated History of Australian Cricket
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Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases HospitaL
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The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport
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