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Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly [...]
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being?These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
The Fox Wife: an enchanting historical mystery from the New York [...]
Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio'Irresistible' Sunday TimesSome people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be...
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone...
A Court of Betrayal: The gripping new historical novel from the [...]
'A fantastically gripping story of love and betrayal, told with the masterful skill of a passionate storyteller. It kept me riveted until the last page!' BARBARA ERSKINE 'Anne...
The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music
Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your best...
Romanticise Your Life: How to find joy in the everyday
'A warm and practical guide to infuse joy into the seemingly mundane' - BOLU BABALOLA, author of LOVE IN COLOUR'Helped me to discover the joy all around me' - ANNIE...
Great British Dad-ventures: 101 maps for dads who like doing [...]
When you're stuck for a great gift for Dad, look no further than GREAT BRITISH DADVENTURES: the ultimate guide to helping Dad discover adrenaline-inducing, mind-expanding or stomach-pleasing mini or big...
Davina's Kitchen Favourites: Amazing sugar-free, no-fuss recipes [...]
Bestselling author Davina McCall is inspiring millions to live a healthier lifestyle and has sold over half a million sugar-free books to date! Davina's Kitchen Favourites is her latest cookbook,...
Cook's Encyclopaedia
Here in almost 500 pages is a descriptive compendium of just about everything we eat and how we cook it. Arranged alphabetically from Abalone to Zampone, the majority of entries...
Why Can't I Let You Go?: Break Free from Trauma Bonds, End Toxic [...]
Break free from trauma bonds and develop the healthy, secure, and loving relationships you deserve! If you experienced physical or emotional abuse, neglect, or abandonment as a child, you may...
Tapping In: Manifest the life you want with the transformative [...]
'That was bloody brilliant - I still feel the buzz now. I feel lighter, ready, empowered!' Fearne Cotton'Poppy is a powerhouse - this book is your new guide to achieve...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend...
The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs
The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restoed to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex. Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one...
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the [...]
The startling picture of how China s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance the way...
A Man of Two Faces: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize [...]
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by...
Highly Desirable: Tales of London's super-prime property from [...]
'A hugely fun tale of how the super-rich buy their super-prime lairs - I was absolutely boggled throughout. Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Rightmove anymore . ....
Atalanta: In a world of heroes, meet Greek mythology's fiercest [...]
The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021).'A brilliant...
The 48 Laws Of Power
The perfect book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?). At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere....
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The [...]
A definitive history and celebration of the ground breaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every...
Rebellion (Eagles of the Empire 22)
'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN 1st-century Britannia is the setting for an epic and action-packed novel...
Reading Genesis
A brilliant and dramatic close reading of the first book of the Bible focussing on the complex relationship with humankind'A work of exceptional wisdom and imagination' DR ROWAN WILLIAMS, DAILY...
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of [...]
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress...
I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief
'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read' Joanna Cannon'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful' Mike GayleGrief is universal, but it's also as unique to...
Death in the Blood: the most shocking scandal in NHS history [...]
'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord OwenThe definitive account of the NHS infected blood scandal from Journalist...
Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC [...]
'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN 'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER 'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREY The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and...
Happy: An imaginative and innovative debut novel - 'An essential [...]
'A MIRACULOUS NOVEL' MEGHA MAJUMDAR 'PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND . . . USING WRY HUMOUR TO DELIVER A DEAD SERIOUS MESSAGE' MELISSA FU'A BONKERS STORY THAT READS LIKE A FINE TEN-COURSE...
My First Golf Bag: Tee Up to Drive, Putt, and Play like a Young Pro!
ntroduce your little one to the joys of golf in this interactive activity book full of fun! Use the cardboard cut outs to pack your golf bag, rack the sand...
Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, [...]
A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division...
The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior
Today we take for granted notions of designing rooms to achieve the right 'mood'. Yet this language only emerged in the 19th century, when designers and clients began to think...
For All the People
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change-farmer, union,...
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
From Kauia to Key West, Alaska's tundra to the Rio Grande, a rollicking year-long search for American butterflies With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with...
The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries...
Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist
The first biography of Thomas Macaulay, from child prodigy to imperial administrator in India and revered elder statesman and historian in Britain Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility....
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, [...]
How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate.The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the...
Religion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first...
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the a old monstera and his reign. The a monstera displayed here is, at the very...
Dating and interpreting the past in the western Roman Empire: [...]
This volume presents a collection of more than 30 papers in honour of one of Europe's leading scholars on Roman pottery, Brenda Dickinson. Divided into thematic sections, papers are mostly...
It Starts with Veg: 100 Seasonal Suppers and Sides
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. But, what happens when life gives you a stick of rhubarb, a kohlrabi or a cabbage? What do you make then? This...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has...
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the [...]
Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men-along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-who historian Martin Blumenson called...
Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek...
Thucydides and the Idea of History
From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c 460 - c 395 BCE) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as...