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Insight Guides Travel Map Southern Spain

Insight Guides Travel Map Southern Spain

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Travel Map Southern Spain is an indexed, road map at 1:800 000. It includes city plans of Seville, Valencia and Lisbon, as well as maps of Balearic Islands, Canary Islands,...
Paul

Paul

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Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...
Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 -

Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 -

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Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's...
Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe

Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe

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Italian Witchcraft (previously titled Ways of the Strega) by respected author Raven Grimassi is more than just a book about Witchcraft. It is a complete Book of Shadows. In it...
Hereditary Witchcraft: Secrets of the Old Religion

Hereditary Witchcraft: Secrets of the Old Religion

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Looking at the "old religion" of Italy, this text presents overview of the history and lore of the "hereditary craft", showing how the Italian witches viewed nature, magick, and the...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

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On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
Savoir-Vivre in the 21st Century

Savoir-Vivre in the 21st Century

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In the original French, this book is a practical guide to social living, good manners and etiquette in France and for the French. But this book on the art of...
Day in the Life of a Knight

Day in the Life of a Knight

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Hunting, sword fighting, jousting, feasting ... follow a day in the life of a knight as he takes part in an exciting tournament. Find out all about what life was...
The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1400

The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1400

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This text explores the role of the lady within medieval society, describing what she actually did rather than the romantic ideal. It covers the English lady in the 11th and...
Paris

Paris

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A NEW SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL PAPERBACK CLASSICS FROM DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN WRITERS, TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING Green accompanies the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital,...
Fresh Italian: Over 70 healthy recipes

Fresh Italian: Over 70 healthy recipes

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Enjoy all the traditional, rustic flavours of Italian cooking through contemporary recipe ideas and variations that allow you to experience the taste of Italy without the high fat, salt and...
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...
The Venice Book: A Personal Guide to the City's Art & Culture

The Venice Book: A Personal Guide to the City's Art & Culture

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Everybody has a Venice they love. For the history, for the art, for the sheer beauty of the city. So what is left to be discovered? Quite a lot. This...
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

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The first ever biography of Lady Elizabeth Russell, the woman who waged battle against Shakespeare In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of...
Barcelona Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home

Barcelona Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home

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Experience Barcelona the local way with this insider's guide Barcelona is a cultural colossus- ancient streets, top-notch museums and Modernista masterpieces. But what's beyond the well-trodden sights? Old pharmacies hosting...
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction

The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction

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The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...
Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction

Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction

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This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other...
The Wine Runner: My Year of Hard Yards and Vineyards

The Wine Runner: My Year of Hard Yards and Vineyards

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With his sixtieth birthday looming, Colin Renton decides that it's time to escape office life and focus on achieving some of his unfulfilled goals. He embarks on a year-long adventure...
Italian Hours

Italian Hours

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Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of...
Lifeline: The Merchant Navy at War, 1939-45

Lifeline: The Merchant Navy at War, 1939-45

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The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

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The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
The Art of Hygge: How to Bring Danish Cosiness Into Your Life

The Art of Hygge: How to Bring Danish Cosiness Into Your Life

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Hygge (pronounced hue-ga ) is a Danish word that describes the feeling of being cosy, comfortable and at peace with the world. It s almost impossible to translate into English,...
The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel

The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel

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Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles a man who...
SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

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Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology,...
HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story

HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story

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On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only...
The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1: I Know My Own Heart

The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1: I Know My Own Heart

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ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK , A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

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Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our...
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe

Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe

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Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a...
Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present

Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present

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Within Germany, policies and cultural attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the difficult legacies of the Second World War and its aftermath. This wide-ranging volume explores the complex...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

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'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to...
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241

Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241

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'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS . The violent and predatory society of...
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

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"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....
Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

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'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

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'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....
World-Class Swedish Cooking: Artisanal Recipes from One of Stockholm's

World-Class Swedish Cooking: Artisanal Recipes from One of Stockholm's

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Chefs Bjrn Frantzen and Daniel Lindeberg dish the kitchen secrets that have made their restaurant (Frantzen/Lindeberg) renowned as the Best Swedish Restaurant of 2012, earning two Michelin stars and delighted...
Secrets of French Design

Secrets of French Design

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The author of Villa Decor and French by Design celebrates the Old World in New World decor by presenting the flare and pomp of French style through breathtaking photographs of...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

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This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

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"A joy to read...one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years" (Dan Jones, Sunday Times ), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It

The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It

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A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic...
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

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A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter

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Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands is a living, breathing contemporary history of Europe by one of our greatest writers 'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

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'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian...
The Last Thing to Burn: Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and

The Last Thing to Burn: Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and

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'I lived every second with the characters. A masterpiece' JANE CASEY ' Misery meets Room ... a triumph' MARIAN KEYES 'Ratchets up the tension to the point where I had...
A Very French Wedding

A Very French Wedding

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For all those who imagine escaping to a chateau and living the dream . . . to find that even dreams can have their complications. Steph, Jo and Meredith have...
Gennaro's Limoni: Vibrant Italian Recipes Celebrating the Lemon

Gennaro's Limoni: Vibrant Italian Recipes Celebrating the Lemon

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Ask a foodie about the Amalfi Coast and lemons immediately spring to mind. The sweet, aromatic, large and thick-skinned Sfusato Amalfitano is the extraordinary and delectable citrus fruit which Gennaro...
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last

Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last

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Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather...