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Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian"A powerful portrait" Irish Independent"Displays a bracing rigour and...
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History: 500 Preposterous Facts They Definitely Didn't Teach You in School
Turkeys used to be worshipped as gods? Bull$#*t! Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 world history facts that sound too absurd to be true.Knowledge is...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of The Chaser founders and author of the hilarious STRAYAN DICTIONARY and STRAYAPEDIA
A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Author: Daniel KellyFormat: Hardback, 443 pagesPublished: ISI Books, United States, 2002James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
The Mystery of King John's Treasure
Author: Shirley ChartersFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 154 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
Author: Alfred Grossmith MasonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014In mid-1942 Alfred Grossmith Mason became navigation/ Gunnery Officer on SS Empire Baffin,...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
Author: Crispin BranfootFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 676g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in...
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim MurrayFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 261 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The History and Philosophy of Archeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking...
History of Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures
Author: . GrossmanFormat: Paperback, 198mm x 278mm, 986g, 288 pagesPublished: Getty Trust Publications, United States, 2003The book also features contributions by Elizabeth Bartman, Brigitte Bourgeois, Jane Fejfer, Angela Gallottini, Sascha...
Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations
Author: David FlusfederFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 220g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A joy' Philippe Sands'Glorious' David SpiegelhalterA fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck,...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen TaylorFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 400 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela SainiFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 220g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023...
Ford Model T Coast to Coast: A Slow Drive across a Fast Country
Author: Tom CotterFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 254mm, 224 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, United States, 2018The book is as much a contemplation of early-20th century American life as it...
American Politics: A Graphic History
Author: Laura LockerFormat: Paperback, 175mm x 255mm, 525g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2018Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams...
Cult of Progress
Author: David OlusogaFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 230mm, 810g, 304 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other...
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
Author: William AtkinsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
Disraeli
Author: Robert BlakeFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 1248g, 858 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2010First published in 1966, Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political...
Mirrors: Stories Of Almost Everyone
Author: Eduardo GaleanoFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 197mm, 350g, 400 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2010Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel HewittFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 414g, 560 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
Author: Charlayne Hunter-GaultFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 270g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Author: Maureen CallahanFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 520g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024''A searing expose' Glamour'A timely...
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 580g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
The World
Author: Simon Sebag MontefioreFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 240mm, 1410g, 1344 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2022From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from...
The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
Author: Camper EnglishFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book AwardAn intoxicating interconnected history of booze and...
Italy in Hollywood
Author: Stefania RicciFormat: Hardback, 2100g, 480 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2019The story told in this book, which analyzes the presence of Italians in California in the early decades of the twentieth...
The Greeks in Asia
Author: John BoardmanFormat: Hardback, 183mm x 255mm, 1090g, 240 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts the influence of Greek communities...
Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity
Author: Anett HolzheidFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 580g, 176 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity opens a vivid kaleidoscope of artistic notions of identity that reflect upon...
Henry Leutwyler: International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum
Author: Yves DaccordFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 270mm, 1300g, 256 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2023This book is Henry Leutwyler's meticulous photographic record of the treasures of the International Red Cross and...
The Return of Consciousness: A New Science on Old Questions
Author: Kurt AlmqvistFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 1000g, 280 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022"Consciousness is a scientific problem that is unlike any other. Our own consciousness, as Descartes noted, is...
Past and Present: To Learn from History
Author: Erica BennerFormat: Hardback, 175mm x 246mm, 1120g, 376 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022How can our understanding of the past help to solve our present political or economic conditions and...
Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter
Author: Roula SeikalyFormat: Paperback, 180mm x 240mm, 620g, 176 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Femxphotographers.org's second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Women's bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are...
Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our Society
Author: Mattias HesserusFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 740g, 300 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives...
Deanna Bowen
Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig BrownFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 460g, 656 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2021SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize's 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners awardWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD...
Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art
Format: Paperback, 210mm x 260mm, 520g, 200 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned...
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning
Author: Peter StanfordFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 570g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim...
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...
Katherine Preston: Inn of the Few
Author: Katherine PrestonFormat: Hardback, 250mm x 190mm, 720g, 154 pagesPublished: Hurtwood Press, United Kingdom, 2023Inn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home...