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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond
Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right
Author: Enzo Traverso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
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Author: Prof Carl J Schramm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Business startup advice from the former president of the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation and cofounder of Global Entrepreneurship Week...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer
Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never...
Don't Buy this Book: Entrepreneurship for Creative People
Author: Donald Roos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The sequel to the highly successful Don't Read This Book - Time Management for Creative People. Like its predecessor,...
I'm Afraid Debbie from Marketing Has Left for the Day: How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World
Author: Morten Munster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World In this ground-breaking book, author Morten Munster...
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
Author: Damon Centola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER,...
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
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Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....
Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It
Author: Evan Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
Author: Katrine Marcal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL 'I am absurdly excited for...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power
Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...
The Genius Habit: How One Habit Can Radically Change Your Work and Your Life
Author: Laura Garnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Make your job the right job. Maybe you're a young professional just starting to think seriously about what you want out...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off
Author: Donald Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Speak to the heart of your target audience and create a movement around your mission or campaign through this comprehensive, step-by-step...
What's Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed
Author: Robert Skidelsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The Times In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony
Author: Darren Byler (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
30-Second Money: 50 key notions, factors, and concepts of finance explained in half a minute
Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
One Step Ahead: Mastering the Art and Science of Negotiation
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Author: David Sally Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 There's been a revolution in negotiating tactics. The world's best negotiators have moved beyond How to Win Friends & Influence People...
Mastering Fear
Author: Brandon Webb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb. a four-step guide to making your fear work for...
Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results
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Author: Jack Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 Revised and updated for the first time since original publication! Here is the 200,000-copy staple, praised by Warren Buffett as a...
Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb: Quantum Economics for the Real World
Author: David Orrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Money has many apparently magical properties. It can be created out of the void - and vanish without so much as...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...