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A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809-1849: Volume 1
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Ramesses the Great:Warrior and Builder: Warrior and Builder
During his long reign (1279-1213 BC), Ramesses II left his mark on ancient Egypt, bringing prosperity, justice and order in a golden age during which cultural life thrived. As a...
Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe and the Nile Valley
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Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
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Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides...
Target London: Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII
During the darkest days of the Second World War, the Allies listened intently to the messages of the enemy. Every whisper built a picture of the threat to come -...
Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from
The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History
A grisly and gruesome guide to history's most shocking and macabre moments... Horrible, spine-chilling and deeply fascinating, this book details the vile history of bloodthirsty kings and queens, savage battles,...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world
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Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe
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White Butterflies
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British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
The History Hit Miscellany of Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds
'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating extraordinary stories... Most importantly, like all...
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Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland preserved in the
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Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled
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A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute
Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair.But there's...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
The Bible in the Sixteenth Century
A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the...
A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New...
Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
Trains: A Complete History
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Immerse yourself in railroad history all the livelong day! An icon of the Industrial Revolution, railroads were essential to the progress of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today's trains travel...
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and
While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the...
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in
Leave now, or die! Those words-or ones just as ominous-have echoed through the past hundred years of American history, heralding a very unnatural disaster-a wave of racial cleansing that wiped...
What's Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women
Journey through thousands of years of human history (now with the women put back in).From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women...
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet
'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd...
We Were Young and at War: The first-hand story of young lives lived
Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to...
Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes-and Destabilizes-Foreign
How support from foreign superpowers propped up-and pulled down-authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competitionThroughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd...
Nature's Investigator: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
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Red, White and Blown: Is the United States of America a Cult?
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
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Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One
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The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and...
Equality: The history of an elusive idea
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.
Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Journeys into Night
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Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century
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Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
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