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The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England
How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers....
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page...
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we...
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...
Street Style: Dr. Martens: A visual history of the iconic brand
A collectible, pocket-sized visual history of the ground-breaking and ground-shaking street style brand. Discover the story of Dr. Martens, from its beginnings in 1901 as a producer of sturdy work...
Street Style: Nike: A visual history of the iconic brand
A collectible, pocket-sized visual history of the innovative athletic and street style brand. Discover the story of Nike, from its beginnings in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports to its current...
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An absolute must-read . . . Emmanuel Acho dives into important subjects like cultural appropriation and white privilege, urging you to find a way to...
Astrologica: An Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends From the Planets,
Big, bold and beautiful, this is the enthralling celestial follow-up to Mythologica: Amazon's No. 1 Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019.How did the moon influence mighty emperors in Ancient...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly
'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...
How to Read Church History Volume Two: From the Reformation to the
This second volume takes up the story where the first left off. Like its predecessor it has three features which make it different from other histories, so that it is...
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works-such as his groundbreaking Jerusalem- which...
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...
Museum of Childhood
The Museum of Childhood traces the history of childhood through some of the museum's most cherished objects. The book reveals how children have played, dressed, learned and grown through the...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles,...
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of...
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
27th November 1918, London. Just 16 days after the end of the Great War, with the nation on its knees, Billie Carleton takes to the stage for the last time....
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of
We cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people - especially those most often unheard.Leah Thomas coined the term 'intersectional environmentalism' to describe the inextricable link between...
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the
The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians,...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships
A rebellious new history of female friendship and timely reclamation of the 'bad friend'. Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships
A rebellious new history of female friendship and timely reclamation of the 'bad friend'. Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The...
The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape
'Remarkable.' THE TIMES 'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH 'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE 'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY 'Humane, humorous...
What the Greeks Did for Us
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a...
Tudor Children
The first history of childhood in Tudor England " Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites...
The World of the Crusades
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious...
Tudor England: A History
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable...
Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art
The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and...
Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social...
The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year
In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what...
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting. Whether undertaken by car, bus, train or bicycle, the practice shapes our days and...
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made
The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever written 'A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty...
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all...
Jovial Bigotry: Max O'Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners
This book revisits the debate over manners and morals that raged in France, Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth century. It was in essence a debate about...
Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron Bay 1960s & 1970s
Neverland is a social history of a surf town in Australia - which happens to be Byron Bay. It is the story of the surfers, American and Australian, who found...
Dinetah: An Early History of the Navajo People
Here, in a highly readable style, is a lively chronicle of the Navajo people from prehistory to 1868. It is a sympathetic history of a great people who depended on...
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Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life
"It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid's life whole and understandable." - San Francisco Chronicle Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television...
The National Trust: The First Hundred Years
The book titled The National Trust: The First Hundred Years by the author Merlin Waterson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman,
The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and...
Do They Hear You When You Cry
For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death.Forced into an arranged...
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from
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WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed...
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image...
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera...
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of...
London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly...
Women and the Reformations: A Global History
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of...
A Short History of War
An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the...