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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 Voyage Of Their Life
Author: Diane ArmstrongFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 200mm, 694g, 624 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2005 In August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded, clapped-out vessel in Marseilles to...
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...
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...
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Author: Chris NauntonFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried...
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...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994
Author: Susanne AltmannFormat: Paperback, 195mm x 265mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter FurtadoFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 360g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity...
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 Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder
Author: Gideon Haigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines...
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Author: Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating...
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired 'Moby Dick'
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued...
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,...
Badly Behaved Women: The History of Modern Feminism
Author: Anna-Marie Crowhurst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning...
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our...
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...
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...
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today
Author: Rosalind Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost...
Race of Aces: WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Masters of the Sky
Author: John R Bruning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of...
A Woman's Place: 50 Women Who Made History in the Kitchen
Author: Deepi Ahluwalia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 For centuries, professional cooking was a job exclusively for men. As a result, most histories of food and cooking, even today,...
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...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...
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 Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Author: Natasha Tidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from...