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How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? And how accurate are the views...

Why did Paul Poiret design a dress that resembled a lampshade? Did Rudi Gernreich really think that both men and women would wear his topless monokini? And what prompted Jeremy...

The charm and humor of Mexican folk art have made it among the most popular in the world, and this lavishly photographed volume will appeal to aficionados of collectible folk...

An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20th-century photography to Chicanx mural painting, the...

In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories and styles that have...

The book titled Noel Coward: Autobiography by the author Noel Coward. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

...he is an expert at intellectual and moral triage, sorting patiently through the tangle of mixed motives that make for art, admiring the candor, admonishing the perversion.

or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation An immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton's classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers...

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently...

"Elegant biography . . . a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story." --Simon Schama, The New Yorker George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon...

When Joseph Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918, he already knew her parents well - they had been in the underground revolutionary movement together before the Bolshevik uprising. There was...

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the vast Soviet Empire have led to an unexpected revival of nationalism in Europe. Long-forgotten claims, minority conflicts, and nationalist...

Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...

The book titled Explaining Hitler by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian...

In this delightful and candid memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished career in some of higher education's most hallowed halls....

The book titled Don Giovanni by the author Lorenzo Da Ponte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For more than sixty years, Partisan Review has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. A Partisan Century now...

On December 7th 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko,...

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament,...

The book titled The Aerodrome by the author Rex Warner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Pompous names, bizarre ads, hundreds of new scents a year?the multibillion-dollar business of fragrance has long resisted understanding. At last the first critical?and critically acclaimed?guide to perfume illuminates the mysteries...

Now newly updated, this incisive and illuminating guide is hailed as the best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries, and economics of the contemporary Arab world (The Washington Post...

The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are...

By uncovering what he claimed to be Homer's Troy and Mycenate, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) became one of the dominant personalities of his age. Yet this biography shows him to have...

The book titled The Mind by the author Anthony Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Imaginary Homelands by the author Salman Rushdie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Drawing on documentation only recently made available in the West, this extensively revised and updated edition reflects current views, in Russia and abroad, on the country's past as it approaches...

This book makes sense of the events of December 1989, when Romanians turned on Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and overthrew their savage, megalomaniac rule in a wave of violence and...

The book titled The Best of Granta Travel by the author Bill Buford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled About the New Yorker and Me: A Sentimental Journal by the author E.J. Kahn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design....

The book titled Letters by the author Thomas Mann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this investigation of the aftermath of communism in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, each chapter centres round a legal case, highlighting the moral, political and legal questions raised...

The book titled Orwell: The Authorized Biography by the author Michael Shelden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Dmytryshyn Imperial Russia 3e by the author Basil Dmytryshyn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Nature's fury tests a brother's courage and a dog's loyalty in this Carnegie Medal winning ending to the story of the beloved brothers of the Truth of Things series. WINNER...

'The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic' PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR 'Wallace has a deep understanding of what matters most to us - and her book shows us how...

Praise for the DS Rick Turner series 'A compulsive thriller' Ann Cleeves 'A terrifically tense sequel!' Daniel Sellers Justice is served As criminal gangs rampage unchecked across London, a secretive...

The new gothic fantasy sensation from SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Lindsey Kelk. PRE-ORDER NOW! 'Your new obsession' Cosmopolitan YOU'LL WANT TO BE ONE. UNTIL YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS. After sixteen-year-old Emily's...

'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY 'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE 'A very...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb...

A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover. Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography...

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As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes...

After a series of Mr Wrongs, Bee has finally found her Mr Right. Attractive, mature-William is everything she's been looking for. Gertrude is Bee's best friend since forever (and also...

Book one in a brand new suspenseful small town series from New York Times Bestselling Author, Catherine Cowles. For fans of Elsie Silver's found family trope and those who love...