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Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence,...
How I Stopped Being a Jew
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question...
The Politics of Cruelty: Essay on the Literature of Political
This work sets out a new theory of politics for today, and offers a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of...
Maimonides: Faith in Reason
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed , from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or...
Waltzing Matilda
Banjo Patterson's haunting verse reflects our love of the bush and sympathy for the underdog. The ill fated swagman story, loosely based on fact has become a precious part of...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish
A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with a new chapter on COVID-19. A Financial Times Best Book of...
The Egyptians
The Egyptians is a vibrant, accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost thirty-five centuries. In this collection of essays, eleven internationally renowned Egyptologists present studies...
An American Childhood
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" An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different...
Secondhand Social Sciences & Philosophy Bargain Book Box DSH898
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Secondhand Social Sciences & Philosophy Bargain Book Box Explore the complexities of human society, thought, and history with our Secondhand Social Sciences & Philosophy Bargain Book Box. This curated collection...
Nostalgic Journeys
Relax by the ocean or head to the mountains? This vacation planning debate-starter is actually a fairly recent invention. To people of an earlier era, both options seemed unappealing and...
Classic Playground Games: From Hopscotch to Simon Says
A delightful book which records favourite childhood games and recalls forgotten rhymes. With more children suffering from obesity than in previous generations, Susan Brewer looks at the social games we...
London Labour and the London Poor
'London Labour and the London Poor' is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in...
A Dark History of Sugar
A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe's colonial past...
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel...
History of the British Cavalry Vol.3 1872-1898
The British Empire was at its height during this period, which saw the cavalry in many colonial engagements, such as the Moonlight Charge at Kassassin and the Charge of the...
A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A
Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the...
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....
Anti-Semitism
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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women
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The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
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Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid
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Firebrands: 25 Pioneering Women Writers to Ignite Your Reading Life
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Coal: A Human History
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How it All Began Up the High Street
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Victorian Marriage
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Scotland's Black Death: The Foul Death of the English
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Anny: A Life of Anny Thackeray Ritchie
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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display...
Anne Boleyn in London
Romantic victim? Ruthless other woman? Innocent pawn? Religious reformer? Fool, flirt and adulteress? Politician? Witch? During her life, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's ill-fated second queen, was internationally famous - or...
Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency
In Dark Days of Georgian Britain, James Hobson challenges the long established view of high society during the Regency, and instead details an account of a society in change. Often...
Titanic Collections Volume 1: Fragments of History: The Ship
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Clay: A Human History
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Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency
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French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-rush Austtralia
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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Tribe of Angels: Coming of Age in Melbourne
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Tasting Beer, 2nd Edition: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest
This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings,...
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern
New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret...
Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative
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London At War: 1939 - 1945
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On How I Came To Write 'the Lucky Country'
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Observing Australia
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A Place Apart
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Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society
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