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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires
Author: Paul Strathern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 RISE AND FALL opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then...
100 Symbols That Changed the World
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world's most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
Author: Chris Laoutaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' Financial Times...
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Author: Edward Slingerland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive,...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary
Author: Sarah Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma
Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince of Wales...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and...