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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
Edison
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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:
Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
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...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Cod
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at...
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
Author: Hugh Pope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 413 A detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO...
Fighting them on the Beaches
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
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The Child that Books Built
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? In The Child...
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
Author: Dominique Enright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 162 He took his seat in Parliament in the reign of Queen Victoria, and died when Lyndon Johnson was in his second...
A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is...
Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label
Author: Alan McGee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Alan McGee's role in shaping British culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder...
Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age
Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent ....
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege
Author: Marcus Luttrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
Keeping On Keeping On
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths
Author: Stuart Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the...
Island Song
Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide
Author: Dan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready...
DNA
Author: Dr Kat Arney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Pele: The Autobiography
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Author: Pele Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Misadventures
Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent
Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport
Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...