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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror , The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and...
The Viceroy's Daughters
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Secrets of the Dead
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Exit Into History
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Women Our History
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Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else
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Debunking History: 152 Popular Myths Exploded
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Nobody's Valentine: letters in the life of Valentine Alexa Leeper, 1900-2001
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African Europeans: An Untold History
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 -- Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans...
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob
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Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
Terra Nova: Ambition, jealousy and simmering rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
'A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.' - Peter Hillary, mountaineer...
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
An unprecedented look at women's everyday clothes-from Sylvia Plath's Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers' uniforms-this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background...
Extraordinary Pools
A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Pulp: The Rise and Fall of an Industry
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Days That Changed the World
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Size: How It Explains the World
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size...
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
From the bestselling philosopher, a gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future In very recent times...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM,...
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray leads the pack' JAY RAYNER A colourful history of one of our most loved and ever-changing public spacesThe modern-day cry is that...
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a...
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
A "compelling" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young...
Bunk
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential." --Marlon James...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review 'A terrific storyteller' New York Times 'Exceptional ....
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
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5,000 Years of Royalty: Kings, Queens, Princes, Emperors and Tsars
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The Rest is History Returns: An A-Z of Historical Curiosities
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I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition
With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched...
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award*** 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible ' New York Times An...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
The Little Book of Canada
Canada is repeatedly ranked the world's most favourite tourist destination. And there's a lot of reasons why. It is a nation of vast, unspoiled wilderness, and yet you still get...
First Fleet and Year of Settlement
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The Fight
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between...
Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work - the determinative work - in this field ... Terrifying.' -Rachel Maddow The first definitive account...
The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the stories that
Massmarket edition of the hardback bestseller- In The Story of the World in 100 Moments Oliver presents a remarkable journey through time, curating one hundred moments that shaped our world,...
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage
The story of the astonishing voyage of Captain James Cook and the Endeavour, to mark the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's claim to sovereignty. In 1768 Captain James...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival. THE...