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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language
Author: Esther Schor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize In 1887, Ludwig...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
Battling the Blues
Author: Darius Boyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A legend of the game' - Anthony Seibold 'He's a player that never lets his team down' - Billy Slater Darius...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family's...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A heart-piercingly brilliant book about...
Here Lies Hugh Glass
Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust
Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself
Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A startlingly original new look at Shelley, a stunning work of scholarship and imagination by one of the most remarkable non-fiction...
Twilight Riders: The Last Charge Of The 26Th Cavalry
Author: Peter Stevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A stunning collision of militaray eras--The heroic and tragic final campaign of the U.S. horseback cavalry against the mechanized Japanese Army...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
Hotel K
Author: Kathryn Bonsella Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself
Author: Julian Manyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 On 12 May 1982 as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were...
The Colour of God: A Story of Family and Faith
Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together...
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry
Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
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Author: Jesse Itzler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times...
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade
Author: Clyde Haberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the...
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War
Author: Meighen McCrae (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 292 When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan
Author: Andrew North Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
Eclipse
Author: Alan Moorehead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II. Eclipse was the code name given by...
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice...
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
Author: Martin Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023 The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times''A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235
Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish
Author: Brian D. Bunk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 277 The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's
Author: Ernesto Bassi Arevalo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 277 In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between...
1831: Year of Eclipse
Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
Author: Chris Heath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944....
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and...
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the maneuver warfare...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Author: Durba Mitra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Author: Virginia Nicholson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...