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Secondhand Britannica Great Books of the Western World 52 of the 54 Volumes DSH475

Secondhand Britannica Great Books of the Western World 52 of the 54 Volumes DSH475

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 The Britannica Great Books span the spectrum of human thought and achievement. Each volume is not merely a book but a cornerstone of knowledge, inviting readers to engage with the ideas...
Granta 162: Definitive Narratives of Escape

Granta 162: Definitive Narratives of Escape

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Our winter issue features Raymond Antrobus on performer Johnnie Ray, Marina Benjamin on playing professional blackjack, Chanelle Benz on searching for...
Carl von Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (A Book that Shook the World)

Carl von Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (A Book that Shook the World)

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Author: Hew Strachan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

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Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
The Making of Music

The Making of Music

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Author: James Naughtie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Our Music is the story of our musical history, its origins and it has shaped us. We have all grown up...
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead

Red: A Natural History of the Redhead

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Drinking for England: The Great English Drinkers and Their Times

Drinking for England: The Great English Drinkers and Their Times

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The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars

The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars

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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

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Pirate of Tobruk: A Sailor's Life on the Seven Seas, 1916-48

Pirate of Tobruk: A Sailor's Life on the Seven Seas, 1916-48

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Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

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Crucible: Thirteen Months that Forged Our World

Crucible: Thirteen Months that Forged Our World

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Migrants: The Story of Us All

Migrants: The Story of Us All

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NELSON THE IMMORTAL MEMORY

NELSON THE IMMORTAL MEMORY

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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

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The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

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Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two

Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two

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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict, 1939-45

War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict, 1939-45

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The Story of P & O: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

The Story of P & O: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

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Feast: Why Humans Share Food

Feast: Why Humans Share Food

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Second World War

Second World War

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1492: The Year the World Began

1492: The Year the World Began

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

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The Voyage Of Their Life

The Voyage Of Their Life

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The First World War

The First World War

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Wooden Ship: The Art, History and Revival of Wooden Boat Building

Wooden Ship: The Art, History and Revival of Wooden Boat Building

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Raining Embers: Bendigo's Black Saturday Experience

Raining Embers: Bendigo's Black Saturday Experience

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Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42

Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42

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Ali Abdul v The King: Muslim stories from the dark days of White Australia

Ali Abdul v The King: Muslim stories from the dark days of White Australia

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Nelson and Napoleon

Nelson and Napoleon

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The Longest Hop: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route 1947-1997

The Longest Hop: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route: Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route 1947-1997

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One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

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Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer

Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer

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The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000

The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000

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Author: Aaron Noonan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

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Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom

The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom

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Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

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Author: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often...
Borough Market: Edible Histories: Epic tales of everyday ingredients

Borough Market: Edible Histories: Epic tales of everyday ingredients

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Author: Mark Riddaway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 One of The Times Books of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for The Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021, Debut...
Yorkshire: There and Back

Yorkshire: There and Back

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Author: Andrew Martin Format: Hardback 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...
365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition)

365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition)

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Author: W.B. Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Every day of the year has a story to tell. Who was assassinated, acceded to the throne, fled from their country?...
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden,...
A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America

A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America

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Author: Peter Firstbrook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He...
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980

British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980

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Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to...
The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series

The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON The bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...