{"product_id":"secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2886","title":"Secondhand History \u0026 Culture Bargain Book Box SP2886","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Culture Bargain Book Box SP2886\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen non-fiction titles spanning natural science, Renaissance art, Medici banking, WWII history, and literary biography — Darwin and da Vinci, Pasteur and John Reed, the Yorkshire Ripper and the Buddha. A genuinely eclectic box with serious depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Origin of Species — Charles Darwin, ed. J.W. Burrow (Pelican) — The book that changed everything: Darwin's argument for evolution by natural selection, presented in an edition edited with full scholarly apparatus.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eChomsky — John Lyons (Fontana Modern Masters) — A lucid introduction to Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories and their philosophical implications — one of the best volumes in the acclaimed Fontana Modern Masters series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Misery of Christianity — Joachim Kahl — A blunt and provocative plea for a humanity without God, written by a former theology student and widely read during the 1960s debates about religion and secular humanism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Yorkshire Ripper — Michael Nicholson — A factual, fully illustrated account of the Peter Sutcliffe case — the investigation, the errors, and the women whose deaths exposed the failings of the West Yorkshire police.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Weaker Vessel — Antonia Fraser — A landmark work of social history examining women's lives in seventeenth-century England — their legal status, domestic roles, and the remarkable individuals who defied them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMemphis Belle — Monte Merrick — The true story of the B-17 bomber and her crew, whose completion of twenty-five missions over Europe became a symbol of WWII American courage — the book of the major motion picture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eYoung Thomas Hardy — Robert Gittings — The first of Gittings's two-volume Hardy biography, covering the poet and novelist's Dorset origins and the formative experiences that shaped his imagination.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters — ed. Francis Darwin — Darwin in his own words: the memoir he wrote for his family, alongside selected correspondence that illuminates his method and his character.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397-1494 — Raymond de Roover — A scholarly study of the financial institution that funded the Florentine Renaissance — essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the economics behind the art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJames the Fourth — Robert Greene, ed. Norman Sanders (The Revels Plays) — A scholarly edition of Robert Greene's late sixteenth-century drama, situating the play in its political and theatrical context with full critical apparatus.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Life of Pasteur — René Vallery-Radot — The biography of Louis Pasteur by his son-in-law — the foundational account of one of science's most consequential lives, written with access no later biographer could match.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRomantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed — Robert A. Rosenstone — The incredible story of the American journalist whose \u003cem\u003eTen Days That Shook the World\u003c\/em\u003e made him a legend — the life that inspired the film \u003cem\u003eReds\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSand, Sweat and Camels \/ Australian Aviator: Sir Norman Brearley — George F. and Edmée M. Langley — Two books in one: true Australian tales of desert adventure and the story of the aviation pioneer who built the foundations of Australian commercial flight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eIn the Footsteps of the Buddha — René Grousset — A scholarly and meditative account of Buddhism's origins, spread, and spiritual core — Grousset brings to the subject the same learning he brought to his history of Central Asian civilisations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe United States and Europe: Rivals and Partners — Max Silberschmidt — A mid-century analysis of the transatlantic relationship — its tensions, dependencies, and the question of whether rivalry or partnership would define it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Land Question and European Society — Frank E. Huggett (Library of European Civilisation, Thames and Hudson) — A richly illustrated history of land ownership and rural society in Europe from the medieval period to the modern era.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Rise of the Artist in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance — Andrew Martindale (Thames and Hudson) — A beautifully illustrated study of how the artist emerged as a distinct professional and social figure in medieval and Renaissance Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Bridge Too Far — Cornelius Ryan — The definitive account of Operation Market Garden — the audacious Allied airborne assault on the bridges of Holland in September 1944 that failed by the narrowest of margins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49027219816667,"sku":"SP2886","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2886.jpg?v=1785062854","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2886","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}