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Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos

Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos

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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the...
Paris: A Short History

Paris: A Short History

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A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy. Once described as 'that metropolis of dress...
Oyster Isles: A Journey Through Britain and Ireland's Oysters

Oyster Isles: A Journey Through Britain and Ireland's Oysters

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'Bobby's oyster travelogue is an ambitious, one-of-a-kind piece that shines a spotlight on the extraordinary and the everyday of the industry. It's the stuff that oyster bucket lists are made...
Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and me, the untold truth

Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and me, the untold truth

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10 Rillington Place: the house of death.John Reginald Halliday Christie and Timothy John Evans were hanged after a series of brutal murders in the 1940s and 1950s.But should they both...
A Mother's Sacrifice: The most moving and page-turning saga you'll read this year

A Mother's Sacrifice: The most moving and page-turning saga you'll

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'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson then this one is for...
Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative

Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative

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Sex and Suffering

Sex and Suffering

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The Rise, Fall and Regeneration of the 2/7th Australian Field Ambulance, A.I.F., in World War II

The Rise, Fall and Regeneration of the 2/7th Australian Field Ambulance, A.I.F., in World War II

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Original Australians

Original Australians

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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

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The Media and Communications in Australia

The Media and Communications in Australia

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Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

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Between the Flags: One hundred summers of Australian surf lifesaving

Between the Flags: One hundred summers of Australian surf lifesaving

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Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste

Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste

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Vic Lee's London: A City of Amazing Streets and Tall Tales

Vic Lee's London: A City of Amazing Streets and Tall Tales

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Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change

Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change

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Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

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What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire

What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire

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The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome

The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome

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Board Games in 100 Moves

Board Games in 100 Moves

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The Future in Minutes

The Future in Minutes

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The Declaration of the Rights of Women: The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom

The Declaration of the Rights of Women: The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom

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The Hidden Lives of London Streets: A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond

The Hidden Lives of London Streets: A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond

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True Story

True Story

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to

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From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made.

Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It

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Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion

Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild

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Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

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Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures. A time before the Pill, when divorce...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

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A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers,...
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An absolute must-read . . . Emmanuel Acho dives into important subjects like cultural appropriation and white privilege, urging you to find a way to...
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

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*The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021*'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide

American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide

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Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers-perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alikeAmerican Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide...
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

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Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...
The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany

The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany

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As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life...
Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike

Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike

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Pride tells the inspiring true story of how two very different communities found common cause against overwhelming odds.In 1984, a small group of metropolitan gay mean and lesbian women stepped...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK...
The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

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In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin asked readers to submit homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The response was illuminating and inspiring....
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

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In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white...
Why Men Don't Have a Clue & Women Always Need More Shoes

Why Men Don't Have a Clue & Women Always Need More Shoes

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Cradle of a Healthy Life: Early Childhood and the Whole of Life

Cradle of a Healthy Life: Early Childhood and the Whole of Life

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Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

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Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide

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A General Theory of Love

A General Theory of Love

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The Big Fat Bitch Book

The Big Fat Bitch Book

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Body Language: The Signals You Don't Know You're Sending, and How To Master Them

Body Language: The Signals You Don't Know You're Sending, and How To Master Them

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Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers (riverrun editions)

Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers (riverrun editions)

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Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them

Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them

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