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The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The first history for a general audience of one of Asia's most fascinating and complex countries As more and...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue?...
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Author: Katie Mack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award...
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism
Author: Paul Kildea Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Author: Kate Pickett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do...
On China
Author: Henry Kissinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of Ukraine which helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis Located at the...
Lost Japan
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance- A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 960 The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans'...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
Author: Janet L. Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks,...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Author: George Monbiot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big, bold and beautifully written, his vision of a rewilded world is, well, truly captivating' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall How many...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
Author: Peter H. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire....
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 The definitive one-volume history of Christianity by one of the world's leading historians of religion Christianity, one of the...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Author: Richard H. Thaler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The renowned behavioural economist exposes the irrational tendencies in our thinking and illuminates the way to make clear,...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals
Author: Millie Marotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A bold menagerie of the world's weird, wonderful and disappearing animals, perfect for young adventurers and budding conservationists We...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
The Bookseller's Tale
Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...