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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities
Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilisations, the collapse of ruling elites and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now...
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade "This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best...
Why Surrealism Matters
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after Andre Breton's Manifesto...
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their...
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley...
Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy
Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall "Elegant and enlightening."-Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal Phocion (402-318 BCE) won Athens's...
Vergil: The Poet's Life
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of...
Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits
An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine In this follow-up book to A Natural History of Wine and...
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
What happened on the last day of the Great War? Each year since we have marked the end of the war with tributes and remembrance, solemnity and respect. But as...
Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the...
The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life For Irwin Shapiro, good science starts with good questions. This book provides a broad...
Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans "Excellent and succinct."-Jim Kelly, Air Mail Biographer...
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Situated in the early decades of the powerful Mughal Empire,...
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the...
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked...
The Story of Architecture
An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski...
Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th...
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited...
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read,...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...
Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was
The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England...
Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991
A pioneering history of the experiences of children during Russia's most disrupted century How a country views its children reveals a great deal about that country. This landmark history of...
Edward VII and His Jewish Court
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The book titled Edward VII and His Jewish Court by the author Anthony Allfrey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Robin
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and...
Brilliant Project Management: What the best project managers know, do
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Whether you are organising an important event or heading up a large team, running a project can be a daunting process. Spiralling costs and missed deadlines are part of everyday...
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of
From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations...
Love in a Cold Climate: The wickedly funny sequel to The Pursuit of
Reissued on the 70th anniversary of the first publication of The Pursuit of Love by Hamish Hamilton 'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so...
Jane Austen at Penguin: 50 Postcards from 10 Decades
A collection of 50 postcards, each featuring an iconic Jane Austen cover from Penguin, in a beautifully designed box. 'I have now attained the true art of letter writing,' wrote...
Art Work: On the Creative Life
The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process Art Work, by photographer and writer...
DK Umbria
Be inspired and plan your next unforgettable trip with DK Eyewitness travel guides Get closer to Umbria with DK Eyewitness Enchanting hill towns. Wildlife-filled national parks. Ancient Roman ruins. There...
Antihero
Sunday Times No.1 bestselling hero Orphan X is back with a bang in his biggest adventure yet. 'Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense' Harlan Coben Two problems- A tech-billionaire whose psychological crisis...
Maigret Defends Himself: Inspector Maigret
When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the...
The Burned Children of America
Zadie Smith introduces eighteen stories by the very best young American writers. Step forward Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Matthew Klam, Myla Goldberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rick Moody,...
Under My Skin
The book titled Under My Skin by the author Sarah Dunant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Triple Cross
The book titled Triple Cross by the author Tony Cape. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany
After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The...
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia
Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a...
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their
Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical...
Eclipse: A Novel
In the late fifteenth century, a young Dominican friar sets out on a journey from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts of pre-Christian philosophy. Along the way, he encounters...
The Tarikh-i Hamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History
The Tarikh-i Hamidi is an epic and tragic history from the region of Xinjiang in northwest China, the homeland of the Muslim-majority Uyghur people. Written in the early twentieth century,...
Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to
Whenever a person engages with music-when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest...
East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the
Long before the arrival of Western emissaries and powers, East Asian peoples and states were deeply involved in world affairs. In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia...
The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to
The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples,...
I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo-China's leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08-and took him away. When Liu...
Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks
What is the likelihood that common chemicals such as bisphenol-A, which is found in plastic water bottles, are harming us? Should shoppers be concerned about pesticide residues on fruits and...
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable...
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean
An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles, enslaved people, and even the...