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Six Men Out of the Ordinary

Six Men Out of the Ordinary

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The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

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Author: Paul HamFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 241mm, 1098g, 800 pagesPublished: Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to...
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year

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Author: Roland Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

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Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

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Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

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Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES 'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change

Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change

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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

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Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

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Over Earth and Ocean: the Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: The Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: a Queensland Pioneering Saga Spanning Two Centuries

Over Earth and Ocean: the Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: The Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: a Queensland Pioneering Saga Spanning Two Centuries

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The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age

Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age

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Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

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Author: William Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous,...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

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Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

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Author: Katie Spalding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The...
Vital Organs

Vital Organs

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

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Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

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Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

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Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

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Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

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The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China

The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 4: 1901-Present Day - The Modern World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 4: 1901-Present Day - The Modern World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 3: 1776-1900 - The Changing World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 3: 1776-1900 - The Changing World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 2: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 2: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 1: Prehistory-1491 AD - The Ancient and Medieval World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 1: Prehistory-1491 AD - The Ancient and Medieval World

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The Complete Illustrated History of Australian Cricket

The Complete Illustrated History of Australian Cricket

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Living in Hope and History

Living in Hope and History

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If This Should be Farewell: A Family Separated by War: the Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945

If This Should be Farewell: A Family Separated by War: the Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945

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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

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To Obama: With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair

To Obama: With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

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Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics,...
Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons

Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons

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Living Ancient Wisdom: Understanding and Using Its Principles Today

Living Ancient Wisdom: Understanding and Using Its Principles Today

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The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

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Moonwalkers

Moonwalkers

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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

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Agent Undercover

Agent Undercover

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The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria: A Sporting and Social History

The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria: A Sporting and Social History

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A New Deal for New York

A New Deal for New York

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