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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian...
Napoleon: The Final Verdict
This text presents a combination of assessments, by international Napoleonic experts, of Bonaparte's military career, character, leadership and performance. The result of the analysis is a volume which informs the...
The Book of Sweets
Marina Schinz, photographer and coauthor of the acclaimed Visions of Paradise and The Gardens of Russell Page, has been photographing sweets collected during her travels over the past fifteen years...
Japan's War in Colour
Featuring rare Japanese, US and Allied footage from 1931 to 1945, this extraordinary book depicts WW2 from the Japanese perspective. Included are letters and diaries of Japanese soldiers and civilians.
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
International History of the Twentieth Century
This major new global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors...
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement....
Whale Hunt
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A gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure from the acclaimed author of The Meadowlands. In the fall of 1997, Robert Sullivan arrived in Neah...
The Seventies, The: Good Times, Bad Taste
Did your sweetie money stretch to Spangles and sherbet dips? Did you beg you parents for a chopper bike or a frisbee? This collection of reminiscences, original advertisments and personal...
Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...
Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...
The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige
Founded by the brilliant, misanthropic inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize has for a hundred years claimed to identify the summit of human achievement. But what exactly is the Nobel...
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
'Insightful and breathtaking . . . Explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures.' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Why are humans everywhere prone to believe in ghosts?...
Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and How They Were Made
Bestselling historian Alan Axelrod pinpoints and investigates the make-or-break event in the lives and careers of some of history's most significant figures. Axelrod reexamines history by revealing the answer to...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia
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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
A History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College was founded by the royal minister Sir Walter Mildmay in 1584; he chose a leading moderate puritan, Laurence Chaderton, as first Master, and aimed to educate godly ministers...
Schieffer & Gates : Acting President (Hbk)
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The book titled Schieffer & Gates : Acting President (Hbk) by the author Bob Schieffer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Aztecs (2nd Edition) App
A portrait of a fascinating, complex civilization. Beginning with the story of the Spanish conquest, the text then charts the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders....
The Golden Century: Classic Motor Yachts, 1830-1930
The history of sailing yachts has been recounted often, but these magnificent motor yachts, although far more popular in their time, have been largely neglected. They were the playthings of...
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world's biggest cinema
Like all Indians, Sunny Singh was born and brought up in a country of film fanatics. She and her friends waited impatiently for the latest releases, listened to the songs...
GDR Souvenirs
This work features gifts from foreign dignitaries to GDR party leaders, as well as birthday and anniversary presents given to SED politicians. Several selected objects are also used as the...
Uprising
Coups and Uprisings that Changed History; Revolutions have been called the motors of history. They have overthrown centuries-old regimes and empires, brought new and powerful ideas into the forefront of...
On This Day: Landmarks of Our Time
Ever wondered what historical event occurred on the day you were born! With items arranged in calendar - date order, you will find historic milestones - Space missions, stock markets...
The Legacy of Ancient Egypt
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This text explores the impact of the Egyptians on Western civilization. Starting with the history of ancient Egypt, the book goes on to look at the Egyptian achievement; Egypt and...
The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged...
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know
People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea...
Glimpses of Life in Victoria By 'a Resident'
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John Hunter Kerr emigrated to Port Phillip from Scotland in 1839. He took up land, became a successful pastoralist and a prominent citizen of Melbourne. The story of the Kerrs'...
In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible
The King James Bible was a landmark in the history of the English language, and an inspiration to poets, dramatists, artists and politicians. The influence of this work has been...
Alamein
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In North Africa in 1942, Australian forces provided the hinge on which the success of the Western Alliance sung. This book relates how the 9th Australian Division came to take...
Complete History of the World
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The book titled Complete History of the World by the author Geoffrey Barraclough. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." - The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." - The Atlantic...
Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide
When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with a Master's degree, she found herself making steel in the Rust Belt...
Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39
Yesterdays recreates the often overlooked period between the 2 World Wars. From home to work, education to leisure, the blurring of the class-based society and the inventions that came along,...
Civilization
On 21 September 2001 George W. Bush told Congress 'This is civilization's fight.' A month later he said 'I'm not moving on because we're in a fight for civilization itself.'...
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of...
Quatrememere De Quincy's Historical Dictionary of Architecture: The
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The importance of this dictionary stems from Quatremere''s profound reflections on the nature of architecture, on the principles which are at the source of her rules, and on the roles...
Celtic Myths and Beliefs
The book titled Celtic Myths and Beliefs by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
'Gin took London by storm in the first half of the 18th century. It 'was the original urban drug,' says Warner in this intriguing slice of social history. 'Cheap, potent,...
Captain Bligh's Second Chance: An Eyewitness Account of His Return to
Here is the unfamiliar story of Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791, only one year after his return to England following the infamous mutiny on...
The Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900
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The book titled The Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900 by the author Joseph G Rosa. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Flying: The Golden Years - A Pictorial Anthology
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The book titled Flying: The Golden Years - A Pictorial Anthology by the author Rupert Prior. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Photohistory of World War One
This omnibus edition contains the author's five "Soldiers Fotofax" titles on the individual years of World War I. The book also contains new biographical notes on the leaders from each...
Sorry! The English and Their Manners
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Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when...