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Foie Gras: A Global History
Author: Norman Kolpas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 152 Few ingredients inspire more high-soaring praise and provoke greater outrage than foie gras. Literally meaning 'fat liver', foie gras is traditionally...
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Author: Irven M. Resnick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study...
Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime
Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the...
The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films
Author: Robert Bartlett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In The Middle Ages and the Movies, eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of...
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History
Author: Ronald H. Fritze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Designing Modern Japan
Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
The Moon
Author: Bill Leatherbarrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers...
The Eye of the Poet: Andre Breton and the Visual Arts
Author: Elza Adamowicz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andre Breton's life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an...
Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office
Author: Jeremy Myerson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 As we look toward a future of hybrid or virtual offices, a timely call to rethink the very nature and design...
The Wig: A Harebrained History
Author: Luigi Amara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A witty, eloquent, and curious history of the wig Whether in a court room or a dressing room, wigs come in...
Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture
Author: Richard Vinograd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting,...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs
Author: Mitchel P. Roth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide Power on the Inside is the first book to...
Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
Author: P. E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. A no-holds-barred but balanced account,...
Sardine
Author: Trevor Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The sardine is a paradoxical fish. Seemingly insignificant, its exploitation has made fortunes for some and, when stocks have collapsed, caused...
Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis
Author: Mark Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain...
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities and pets, to omens, muses,...
Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema's Journey to the West
Author: Luke White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong - epitomized by Bruce Lee's...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
Author: Sarah E. Worth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does...
Tibet: A History Between Dream and Nation State
Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future - will it...
The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Author: Christopher Breward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Journeys to the Extreme
Author: Damian Catani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Louis-Ferdinand Cline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France...
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People
Author: Stephen Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that our greatest writer despised working people, and shows that he...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Author: Michael Fried Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Michael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo...
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History
Author: Tijl Vanneste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the...
Nightingale
Author: Bethan Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...
Coal: Nature and Culture
Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
Author: Raymond A. Villareal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'In a landscape littered with works on the undead, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is a welcome addition....
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free
Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In...
Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life
Author: Sir Ranulph Fiennes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies,...
The Dark Lands
Author: Markus Heitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The great pulp writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, also introduced Solomon Kane to the world: a sombre...
The Midnight News: The gripping and unforgettable novel as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
Author: Jo Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A tour de force' IRISH TIMES 'Riveting and moving' NINA STIBBE 'Gripping' THE TIMES 'It had me by the throat' EMMA...
Just Like My Daddy
Author: David Melling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 A celebration of the special relationship between father and child. From the creator of the bestselling Hugless Douglas series. One little...
The Lady of the Lake: Witcher 5 - Now a major Netflix show
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling Witcher series that inspired the hit Netflix show finds Ciri trapped in...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...
The Bone Bed
Author: Patricia Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The twentieth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime...
Bark Park (Bark Park Book 1)
Author: Brandi Dougherty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 With a little perseverance and a lot of blueberries, Scout helps Maggie, Jerome, and Gus with their mysteries in this three-part...
Grandad's Pride
Author: Harry Woodgate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 The highly-anticipated sequel to Waterstones Prize-winning and British Book Awards Children's Illustrated Book of the Year Grandad's Camper celebrates the power...
Count the Stars
Author: Raewyn Caisley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A STEM-themed picture book celebrating the love of learning, the magic of mathematics and the joy of finding a kindred spirit,...
Little Wombat's Easter Surprise
Author: Charles Fuge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 28 A Little Wombat story about sharing, new friends, and of course, Easter eggs. Little Wombat is busy collecting eggs on his...
King Lion
Author: Emma Yarlett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A delightful, funny story about making friends and learning to communicate from award-winning and bestselling author-illustrator, Emma Yarlett. The lion is...