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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Love; A Curious History
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the...
This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
Author: Andrew Doig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries: On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange
Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How were the hunter-gatherers of Gobekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It
Author: Jonathan Greenblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL,...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...