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Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids...
Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen & Bushido
Author: Thomas Cleary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In Soul of the Samurai respected author and translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of Bushido or Zen warrior teachings...
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and]...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Stephen L. Harp (Department of History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 One of the world's largest tyre makers and an international corporation with interests in countries around the...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Sinner And The Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
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Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...
Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
Author: Jay Chladek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 520 The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to...
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
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Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...
Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
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Author: Jon Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It's the missing link between the birth of our universe--as...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Author: Simon L. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
The Real Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Rose Sgueglia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his...
Queens of Georgian Britian
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 220 Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Untold Top Secret Story
Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This is a true story of a force of licensed to kill" secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
What's Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed
Author: Robert Skidelsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off
Author: Emma Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with...
Following in the Footsteps of King Arthur
Author: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness
Author: Niklas Zetterling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 450 A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their...
Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About
Author: Michelle Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 193 Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one...
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy
Author: Kate Werran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish...
Viking Nations
Author: Dayanna Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How was the North Atlantic settled? How did the distinct cultures of medieval Iceland and Greenland come to be? Viking Nations...
Sleep in Early Modern England
Author: Sasha Handley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing...
Light Dragoons: The Making of a Regiment
Author: Allan Mallinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary
Author: John Clubbe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Pirate Nation: Elizabeth I and Her Royal Sea Rovers
Author: David Childs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was...
Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail
Author: Mike Rendell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, this book looks at some of the stories which inspired...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Universal
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Author: Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2?...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-a cloth...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Author: Ingrid Rowland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511?1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of...
Madame Cezanne
Author: Dita Amory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt
Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
Love & Other Disasters: 'The perfect recipe for romance' - you won't want to miss this delicious rom-com!
Author: Anita Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The first openly nonbinary contestant on America's favourite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this delicious romantic comedy debut!...
Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award
Author: Emily Itami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of...
Within These Wicked Walls: the must-read Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Author: Lauren Blackwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A REESE WITHERSPOON YA BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Lauren Blackwood's can't-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix...
Sugar & Spice: sweets & treats from around the world
Author: Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This enchanting book is a collection of recipes of the best of the world's sweets, tiny cakes and patisserie, from delicately...
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Author: Douglas Rushkoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem...
The Archivist's Story
Author: Travis Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 It is Moscow, in 1939. The great author Isaac Babel is spending his last days in the infamous Lubyanka prison, forbidden...
Doctor Bowl: Quick + Simple Balanced Vegetarian and Vegan Food
Author: Dr Divya Sharma (Influencer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Doctor Bowl includes easy, nutritious recipes that are nourishing and delicious. The dishes are super simple, with short and...
The Rehearsals: The wedding is tomorrow . . . if they can make it through today. An unforgettable romantic comedy
Author: Annette Christie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The wedding is tomorrow. If they can only get through today... Long-time couple Megan Givens and Tom Prescott are preparing for...