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Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin Hazzard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
The Mind of a Thief
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Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
The Pleasure's All Mine
Author: Julie Peakman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 472 What is perverse sex and what isn't? Now available in paperback, The Pleasure's AllMine explores the gamut of sexual activity that...
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...
St Catherine's : a Centenary Celebration 1896-1996
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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...
The Birth Of Melbourne
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Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853
Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law
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Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Author: Keggie Carew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A...
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
West End Chronicles: 300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London
Author: Ed Glinert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Like the East End, the West End has a strong and memorable identity. There are few more visited areas in Britain....
Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville
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London: Immigrant City
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The Longest Hop: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route 1947-1997
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The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
Author: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom
Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret
Author: Benjamin Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Step below the pavemants of Soho's Beak Street, and discover the untold tale of the exotic - and scandalous - Murray's...
London: Immigrant City
Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Author: Rachel Feltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
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A Time of Paradox: America from the Cold War to the Third Millennium, 1945-Present
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