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How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

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Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...
First Man In: Leading from the Front

First Man In: Leading from the Front

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems

Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems

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Author: Lorraine Marwood (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A beautiful collection of poems about animals. Squawk! Snuffle! Bark! Roar! Feathers, fins, scales, claws. Running, hopping, crawling, soaring....
The Big Animal Activity Book: Fun, Fact-filled Wildlife Puzzles for Kids to Complete

The Big Animal Activity Book: Fun, Fact-filled Wildlife Puzzles for Kids to Complete

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Author: Jean Claude Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Paw-some challenges include guiding a panda through a bamboo forest, spotting a snow leopard on the mountain, matching up chameleon...
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

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Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944,...
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets

The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets

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Author: Bart Moore-Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue and informs leading academic Bart Moore-Gilbert that his beloved...
It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life -  Foreword by Michael Whitehall

It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life - Foreword by Michael Whitehall

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive,...
Memoirs and Reflections

Memoirs and Reflections

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Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...
Special Ops Heroes

Special Ops Heroes

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Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914

The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914

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Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Animals

Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Animals

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Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Many children are fascinated by animals and this engaging flap book will answer lots of their questions. * With entertaining...
Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

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Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

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Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

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Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

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Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

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Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for...
MacArthur

MacArthur

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Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Antiquity Matters

Antiquity Matters

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Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

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Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
L'Art Pompier

L'Art Pompier

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Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 277
Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World

Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World

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Author: Jorge Guillermo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Sibyls--from the Greek word for prophetess--commanded a remarkable amount of respect and devotion in the ancient world for their ability to...
Anna Comnena: A Study

Anna Comnena: A Study

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Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
A Private War

A Private War

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Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France

Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France

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Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis

Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis

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Author: Gerri Chanel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

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Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

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Author: Will Iredale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust

Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust

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Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich

Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich

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Author: Mary M. Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself,...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain

Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents

The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents

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Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of...
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB

I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB

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Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great...
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

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Author: Adrian Tinniswood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was...
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

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Author: Ruth Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Every age and every social strata has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the...
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past

The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past

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Author: Charlie English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions...
Taking Command Book

Taking Command

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Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Born Survivors: The Incredible True Story Of Three Pregnant Mothers And Their Courage Determination

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Lifesize

Lifesize

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Author: Sophy Henn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure! Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...