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Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

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Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Way of the Samurai

The Way of the Samurai

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Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

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Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
The Queen

The Queen

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles

The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles

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Author: Charlotte McLaren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and fashion icon who has broken...
The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt

The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt

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Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

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Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs...
Women in the War

Women in the War

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Author: Lucy Fisher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021'...
Firestarter: Me, Cricket and the Heat of the Moment

Firestarter: Me, Cricket and the Heat of the Moment

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Author: Ben Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Ben Stokes is not cast in the same mould as the vast majority of English cricketers. Fiery, combative, gladiatorial...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

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Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution

The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution

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Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

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Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The End of an Earring

The End of an Earring

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Author: Pam St Clement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

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Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

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Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
Louis: My Story So Far

Louis: My Story So Far

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Author: Louis Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics. In...
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

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Author: Rosie Mercado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Latina superstar and daytime television host, Rosie Mercado, tells the story of her incredible life. When Rosie Mercado was only nineteen,...
A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism

A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism

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Author: Meredith Hinds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Teach your child to walk in faith, act justly, and lead with kindness and humility with this 365-day devotional for kids....
Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons

Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons

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Author: Hunter Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The nation has commented on and devoured Paul Gascoigne for years. But until now no one has ever known...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

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Author: Justin Spring Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of...
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

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Author: Rebecca Front Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'I was completely captivated' David Sedaris People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations....
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

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Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

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Author: Randal Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

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Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

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Author: Christopher Spriggs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
All Made Up

All Made Up

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Author: Janice Galloway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This...
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

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Author: Emma Brockes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of...
Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring

Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring

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Author: Eric Musgrave Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary...
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

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Author: Daniel Bergner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress

Open: The Story Of Human Progress

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life from...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

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Author: Catherine Hickley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art....
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...