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Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
Author: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of Italian and History) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' - Daniel...
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
Author: Hauke Friederichs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
Labouring Men
Author: Prof Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the...
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
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...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
Author: James Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with...
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...
O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music
Author: Andrew Gant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
Yorkshire: There and Back
Author: Andrew Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin Hazzard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police...
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Author: Kenneth R. Manning (Professor of the History of Science, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 This biography illuminates the...
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
Author: Roland Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
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...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy
Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES 'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Vital Organs
Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
My Russia: War or Peace?
Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
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...
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...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history
Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
The New Socialist Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Why It Matters Now
Author: Dan Tucker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, the U.S. is witnessing a leftward shift that hasn't been...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Wager
Author: David Grann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
Today: A History of our World through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies
Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Today is the sound of history being made - live on air. In an era of fake news, echo chambers and...
100 Letters that Changed the World
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Collins Classics)
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of...