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Manichaeism (Sandpiper Books)
$30.00
Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Author: Les Standiford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 '[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'A brilliant book . . . timely . . ....
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...
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment
Author: Penny Spikins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant...
Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and...
Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis
Author: Mark Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment
Author: Julian E. Zelizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 488 Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents...
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...
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...
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome: A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family
Author: McCall, Jeremiah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps...
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 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...
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...
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,...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
$20.00
Author: Gregg Easterbrook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising...
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...
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...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
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...
The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean
Author: Paul A. Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid
Author: Jan Verplaetse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
The Unnamable Present
$12.00
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A Spectator Best Book of the Year Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages,...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Hardback 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...
Harriet Quimby: Flying Fair Lady
Author: Leslie Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 ** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
$15.00
Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
A Writer's House in Wales
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country...
Fight the Good Fight
Author: John Broom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
$15.00
Author: Sam Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ** Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer, Telegraph, Irish Times, Stylist and...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
$25.00
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Author: Matthew D. O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions...