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Bad Ideas? An arresting history of our inventions
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900
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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...
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as...
The Little Book of Scotland: Wit, Whisky and Wisdom
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Land of spectacular landscapes, rich history and fabulous legends. With its jaw-dropping beauty, magnificent architecture, superb art and culture, and friendly,...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other
Author: Kate Hodges Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are...
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
Author: Donald BogleFormat: Hardback, 214mm x 256mm, 1380g, 272 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history,...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin HazzardFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 300g, 352 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2024Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A...
The Prince and the Assassin: Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
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The Legend Of Napoleon
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Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800
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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A...
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...
Tivoli: Hardback + 60 Minute Music CD
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Jeedara: One Alliance, One Ancient People and an Expedition for the Greataustralian Bight
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An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
Octavia, Daughter of God
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Donald Horne: Selected Writings
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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...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
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Author: Barbara Demick (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
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Wild Hope
Author: Marisa Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in...
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Author: Michael Harriot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
LEGENDS JAMES CAGNEY
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The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging
Author: Kenya Hunt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
Egypt: Land and Lives of the Pharaohs
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Miles of Post and Wire
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Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'Davies's absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity -...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
Author: Gareth Harney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to
Author: Bernard Wasserstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Author: Harald Jahner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of...
The Fate of IBM
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Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affiar That Shaped a First Lady
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A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
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Author: Tom Segev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 816 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man...
Trees, Woods and Forests: A Social and Cultural History
Throughout human history our relationship with trees, woods and forests has remained central to the development of our technology, culture and expansion as a species. In this engaging book Charles...