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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' ( The Times ) - also including puzzles and a quiz! Tom...

' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...

Numerous successful reprints of contemporary works on rigging and seamanship indicate the breadth of interest in the lost art of handling square-rigged ships. Modelmakers, marine painters and enthusiasts need to...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion...

'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary Review From troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'?...

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The book titled A Brief History of Everything by the author Ken Wilber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This controversial biography is based on previously unseen sources, including those of the Special Operations Executive which Wingate joined in 1940. It traces his development as a soldier and guerrilla...

The book titled The Dictionary of Global Culture by the author Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

These traveller's tales have one thing in common: they are all true. Antarctica is the driest continent, the windiest, the highest continent on earth. And the least known. This anthology...

She learns about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages, legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and mysterious properties....

The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...

Spanning two and a half thousand years of warfare, from Salamis, where the Greeks put an end to Persian attempts to overwhelm their country, through the Battle of Hastings and...

The 20th century is the century of communism and fascism, of debt and prosperity, of the United Nations and nationalistic fervour, of mass demonstrations and individual defiance; and also of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar; edgeworn, no major tears. Pages: foxing on prelims and book block....

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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in American history embodied contradiction as magnificently as Daniel Edgar Sickles — congressman, adulterer, killer, and one-legged Civil...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedAt the crossroads of national identity and democratic ambition, Tom Keneally's Our Republic presents a passionate and penetrating argument for Australia's transformation...

Few books before have explored the exploits, achievements and notorious antics of ancient Rome's imperial dynasties in such readable detail. This engaging chronicle describes the lives of every man (and...

Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the ancient world. Through alignments with...

Smuggling conjures up images of romance and rebellion. Moving beyond this popular conception, Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraban d presents the bigger picture of this clandestine trade. It focuses on...

The Nazis, masters of manipulation and deceit, sought global domination, orchestrating a devastating global conflict under the leadership of an Austrian corporal with a twisted psyche. This book delves into...

History is written by the victors to control the billions of people on Planet Earth. Guns, weapons, and armies are not enough. The victors intend to control your MIND ....

The story of how a desperate clandestine mission in Norway ended the Nazi dream of building the atomic bomb.

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The book titled Civilization in the West by the author Mark A Kishlansky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Through the Lion Gate: Using Evidence in Ancient History by the author Barbara Vance Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

Every map tells a story and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps. From Babylonian tablets to digital mapping, the world has evolved rapidly, along with...

'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...

'A powerful and timely book' PETER KENNARD 'Really good read' DERMOT O'LEARY 'Tremendous...it strikes me it fills a gap somehow' AL MURRAY 'Fantastic' DOMINIC SANDBROOK Delve into the history, politics,...

Discover the story of London from behind the scenes. Imagine sitting across from a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth on the District Line, or being overtaken by Muhammad Ali on his morning...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate firsthand accounts of a revolutionary in flight, With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacán chronicles seven tumultuous years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of Cold War politics and Soviet ideological history stands one of the most comprehensive documentary records ever assembled of the Communist Party of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations / underlining. At the dawn of the Soviet era, the Bolshevik revolution sent shockwaves far beyond...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Cyclone Tracy tore through Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974, it left behind a city in ruins and a nation in shock — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning thousands of years of migration, conquest, and cultural assimilation, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People presents a sweeping historical account of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent spring of 1958, France stood on the precipice of collapse — its government paralysed, its empire fracturing, and its army in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew moments in modern history carry the seismic weight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the ghost of feudal tradition, Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Superstate...

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