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Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium,...
Photo Nomad
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
Author: Ronnie James Dio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the...
This is Matisse
Author: Catherine Ingram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
The Flying Optometrist
Author: Joanne Anderton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Age range 4+ The Flying Optometrist travels in his little red aeroplane from his practice in the city to a remote...
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Author: Brian Copenhaver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical...
HAVOC-06: A Combat Controller on Operations
Author: Troy Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 I received a target indication from one of the rear team members and observed movement coming from the left of the...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time
Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees
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Author: Helen Jukes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive-a year of living dangerously-watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
Mastering Fear
Author: Brandon Webb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb. a four-step guide to making your fear work for...
Do Dice Play God?, The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Author, Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 304 A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable We would like to believe...
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
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Author: Pico Iyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 "Arguably the greatest living travel writer" (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as...
Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult
Author: Robert Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller 'THE...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Guderian: Panzer General
Author: Kenneth Macksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined...
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
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Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...
The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
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Author: Jesse Itzler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
The Wood Age: How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History
Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book...
Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope
Author: Mike Thomson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
All the Kremlin's Men, Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Author, Mikhail Zygar Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 ALL THE KREMLIN'S MEN is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based...
Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Author: Ian Sayer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them...
Great State: China and the World
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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook...
Behind the Lens: My Life
Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
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Author: Stephen Grey (Broadleaf Capital International Australia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a...
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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Author: Maya Jasanoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book...
President McKinley Architect of the American Century
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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Author: Martin Gayford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018 'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If...
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
Author: Emma Sky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American...
Sex: Lessons From History
Author: Fern Riddell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. __________ These are the facts:...
A Short History of the World in 50 Books
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Author: Anthony Sattin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary...