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Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Author: Robert C DavisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 380g, 376 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis...
The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
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A Guest of the Emperor
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Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
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African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time
Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
Author: Caroline Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of...
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality
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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
Author: Hugh Cecil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 938 'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real...
Forgotten Women
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...
Forgotten Women
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...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
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...
Living in Hope and History
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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
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...
Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD
Policing the Big Apple is the story of America's largest and most celebrated law enforcement agency. The book covers the history of policing New York City from 1625 in then...
F**k You And Goodbye
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Sword and the Pen
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Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)
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The Histories
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Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
Give War a Chance
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
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...
Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
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Love; A Curious History
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the...
Mr Stuart's Track
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This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
Author: Andrew Doig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'...
Winged Victory
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
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Kokoda Commander
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
Raining Embers: Bendigo's Black Saturday Experience
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One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir
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1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans
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Number of Pages: 240
Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries: On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange
Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How were the hunter-gatherers of Gobekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It
Author: Jonathan Greenblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL,...
Centuries of Darkness: Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology
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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
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