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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of Enron

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of Enron

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On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families

On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families

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Military History of Us Naval Operations in World War II: Sicily Salerno Anzio Volume 9

Military History of Us Naval Operations in World War II: Sicily Salerno Anzio Volume 9

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A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

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Obama from Promise To Power

Obama from Promise To Power

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Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - 10th Anniversary Edition

Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - 10th Anniversary Edition

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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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Aston Martin: Made in Britain

Aston Martin: Made in Britain

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From bestselling author, racer and stunt driver Ben Collins - the man who was The Stig - comes a story of spies, speed and hard-driving genius: a driver's love letter...
Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII's Sister

Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII's Sister

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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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Great South Land

Great South Land

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Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath

Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath

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The Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes

The Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes

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Reflections

Reflections

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A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

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A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to...
Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens

Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest [...]

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'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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The essential anti-racist book from one of the world's leading voices for change'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox...
The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

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In "The Axe and the Oath", one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary...
Marx and Marxism

Marx and Marxism

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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

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The Sea Hunters

The Sea Hunters

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Jewels: A Secret History

Jewels: A Secret History

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Terra: Tales of the Earth: Four Events That Changed the World

Terra: Tales of the Earth: Four Events That Changed the World

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Maverick

Maverick

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Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony

Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

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In "The Axe and the Oath", one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

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An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
Thucydides and the Idea of History

Thucydides and the Idea of History

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From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c 460 - c 395 BCE) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as...
Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

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King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the...
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, 1952-79

The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, [...]

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She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed...
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

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Reissued to coincide with the release of Oliver Stone's epic movie on Alexander the Great (slated for fall 2004) and the Summer Olympics in Greece, Lewis Cummings's comprehensive and readable...
The Great War - The Persuasive Power of Photography

The Great War - The Persuasive Power of Photography

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World War I could be called the 'war of the camera'. While earlier conflicts were documented using photography, WWI represented a turning point in how the medium was applied and...
Romans and Barbarians

Romans and Barbarians

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Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of [...]

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Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the...
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

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World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that...
The Egyptians

The Egyptians

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This is an account of the Egyptians from the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the present day. Egypt has the longest, continuous, known history of any country...
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age

A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, [...]

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The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea

She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea

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Author: Joan Druett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Tells the stories of women sea captains, pirates, and ship owners from the sixth century B.C. to the nineteenth century.
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]

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A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

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"Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its 'symbiotic living ecosystems.' The result is a potent look at the...
Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)

Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)

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In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...