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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
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Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce . The picture...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
The Costello Memoirs
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
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Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...
Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's \"Learned\"
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Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer
Author: Adrian Newey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun....
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The Lion House: The Coming of a King
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Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era...
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
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Author: Martin E. P. Seligman (University of Pennsylvania) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline,...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
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Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
Author: Catrine Clay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the...
Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
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Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World
Author: Quentin Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Focusing on seven decisive naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in the fifth century BC to...
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185
Author: John Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
Gallipoli
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:
Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
Golden Harvest
Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
Jim Stynes: My Journey
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Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'
Author: Eugenia Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 206 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020
Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...
The World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1344 From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told...
King Charles III
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 An illustrated celebration of the new King of the United Kingdom, His Royal Highness King Charles III This is the story...
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa
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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings
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The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...