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Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white...
Shoulder to Shoulder: A Queer History of Solidarity, Coalition [...]
This is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. It's a new global look at those bold moments where marginalised voices came together to say 'enough is...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity
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 Empire of Necessity
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Author: Greg GrandinFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 384 pagesPublished: Henry Holt & Company Inc, United States, 2014One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Pelican
Author: Barbara Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But the...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
Land and Territoriality
Author: Michael Saltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline...
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain...
The Atrocities of the Pirates: A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates
Author: Aaron Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by...
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy
Author: . Ciammitti (ed) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life,...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography
Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Author: Matthew D. O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
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...
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942
Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across...
It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015
Author: J P Cross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then...
In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't
Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522-1620
Author: Dewei Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Late imperial Chinese Buddhism was long dismissed as having declined from the glories of Buddhism during the Sui and Tang dynasties...
The Nixon Tapes: 1973
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Author: Professor Douglas Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 848 The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18
Author: Peter Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon...
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome
Author: Lindsay Powell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
Napoleon's Shield and Guardian
Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Author: Craig Clunas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...
Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today
Author: Valerie Bertinelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on...
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022
Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr....
Little Big Man
Author: Stanley J. Browne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother...
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
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Author: Cyrus Grace Dunham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib), "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire. How do you know if you are...
Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth
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Author: Ben Westhoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist's long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell...
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
Author: David Makovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 At a time when the identity of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong...
Whistle Blower: My Autobiography
Author: Mark Clattenburg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The outspoken and hard-hitting autobiography of one of the most highly-rated, recognisable and controversial football referees of modern times. Mark Clattenburg...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss
Author: Harry Cole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving prime minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year 'An insightful...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William Boyd Love & Deception...
Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL
Author: Riva Lehrer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of...
Crown's Royal Britain
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the filming locations for the award winning Netflix series The Crown. The...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians
Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...