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The Underground Sea
The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Fateful Hours tells one of the greatest dramas in world history: the failure of Germany's first democracy, culminating in the horrific rise of the Third Reich. But this tragedy was...
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...
Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female...
Skies of Thunder: The deadly World War II mission over the roof of the
'Riveting' - The New York Times THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma,...
No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality
History is dominated by the A-list deaths - Queens beheaded, Archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people through history prepare for the end, depart this life,...
Hostels, homes, museum
During the apartheid years in South Africa, hostels and compounds were built to house migrant labour. One such hostel was Lwandle, some 40 kilometres outside Cape Town. Literally translated from...
Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of
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A comprehensive guide to the aces of the British Empire fighting scout units during World War I. It gives biographies of 800 British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and...
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology
A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity highlights the resurgence in historical inquiry underway right now, assesses the field's past accomplishments, and peers into the future, delineating changes to...
The Mask Of Command
This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live. It argues that generalship is a cultural activity....
Works of Man: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
The book titled Works of Man: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by the author Ronald W. Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time
'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain. By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to...
Loach on Loach: Updated edition
'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of The Last Colony WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD The story of leprosy is the...
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR 'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter.' - DAN JONES...
The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of...
The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change
Why is playing games a universal human instinct? Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations? And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more...
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future
A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...
The Windsor Legacy: A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal and Survival
In an age where resilience is essential The Windsor Legacy delivers an enthralling narrative of inspiration and royal intrigue. Penned by Robert Jobson, a Sunday Times and New York Times...
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime
'Enthralling' Philip Ball 'Ingenious' Sujit Sivasundaram In Tracks on the Ocean , Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey...
Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell's Spy
Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...
Great Burial Places
Poised between earth and heaven, the material and the spiritual, burial places are amongst the most important sites ever built. Man is the only animal that knows it is going...
Leadership in Conflict 1914-1918
The First World War was a conflict in which personality and character mattered. Its course and outcome were decided by determined individuals who had to make momentous decisions in very...
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future
A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...
The Past is a Foreign Country
In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to...
From Merciless Invaders
The book titled From Merciless Invaders by the author Alexander McKee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
From Aha, king of the 1st Dynasty at Memphis (2920 B.C.), to the vast complex of pleasure palaces at Zerukha this A-Z dictionary places more than 1,500 entries on the...
The Coast Watchers
After Pearl harbour was bombed in 1941 the war in the Pacific gained momentum; Japanese troops began to move relentlessly south, towards Australia. Determined to provide an information network along...
Secondhand Publisher's Proofs Bargain Book Box SP2977
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Secondhand Publisher's Proofs Bargain Book Box SP2977 Twelve advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs — the pre-publication editions sent to booksellers and reviewers before a book hits shelves. A mix...
Secondhand Asian & Pacific History Bargain Book Box SP2972
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Secondhand Asian & Pacific History Bargain Book Box SP2972 Fifteen books on the history and politics of Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia — drawing on scholarship from Melbourne...
Secondhand Art History & Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970
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Secondhand Art History & Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970 Sixteen books for serious students and lovers of art history — covering modern art, aesthetics, Vuillard, Ottoman art, Courbet, feminist art...
The Story of the Unsinkable Titanic
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, then the largest and most luxurious passenger liner the world had ever seen. Here is the complete story of...
Days That Changed the World: The Defining Moments of World History
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On September 28, 480, the Athenian navy destroyed the Persian invasion fleet in the Bay of Salamis. Had the Persians won, such noted figures as Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander along...
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...
The 1960s in Maps
Which countries were under a dictatorship? Where did the Beatles perform live outside the UK? Where were atomic bombs tested? Which nations boycotted the 1966 World Cup? What was the...
How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human
Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story...
Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell's Spy
Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...
Voices from Voyager: HMAS Voyager 1957-1964
On the evening of 10th February 1964, in pitch dark, HMAS Melbourne sliced through the middle of HMAS Voyager. The Voyager sank within minutes taking 82 lives.
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "excellent, all-embracing" ( The New York Times ) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a...
Rubik's: 50 Years of the World's Most Famous Cube
A vibrant visual celebration of the iconic cube. The Rubik's (R) Cube was created in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architecture professor. Rubik later used the Cube as a...
Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy
Here is an eyewitness account of the six years of turbulent change from the Soviet Union to Russia. Jonathan Steele's three decades as a journalist covering that eternal nation have...
Wings of Fury: From Vietnam to the Gulf War the Astonishing True
They are America's best fighter pilots -- from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Heroes who push the envelope with their machines, their bodies, and the will to fight and...
Power & Privilege:Russia & the Soviet Union in the Nineteenth &
The book titled Power & Privilege:Russia & the Soviet Union in the Nineteenth & by the author David Christian. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
What would the world now look like if the historical events we are all so familiar with had turned out completely differently? What if Britain had stayed out of the...
Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth
In the twelfth century Joachim of Fiore (c.1132-1202) developed a powerful and original theology of history. In the twentieth century, particularly after the Second World War, much interest was focused...