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The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...
Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

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Author: Roger Moorhouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no regime of the twentieth century has prompted...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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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...
The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Art of War

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings

Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings

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Author: Frank Sewall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

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Author: Edith Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

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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

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

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...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . ....
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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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...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

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Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond

'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond

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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...
Snowing in Bali

Snowing in Bali

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Author: Kathryn Bonella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one...
The Analects

The Analects

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Author: Confucius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of Confucius' sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express...
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

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Author: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it to thirsty...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

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Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962....
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

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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...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

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Author: Ellen Carol DuBois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the...
Tibetan Book of the Dead

Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Author: Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The...
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION...
The Dialogues of Socrates

The Dialogues of Socrates

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with...
Friendship & Other Essays

Friendship & Other Essays

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections

When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections

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Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

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Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sexual Abberations Infantile Sexuality Transformations of Puberty"At the turn of the last century, Freud...
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right

The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right

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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...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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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...
Freud: The Making of an Illusion

Freud: The Making of an Illusion

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Author: Frederick Crews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator...
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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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...
Unconscious Bias: Everything You Need to Know About Our Hidden Prejudices

Unconscious Bias: Everything You Need to Know About Our Hidden Prejudices

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Author: Annie Burdick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 How can we challenge the judgements we don't even know we're making? Unconscious bias affects us all. From the smallest assumption...
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

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Author: Gina Rippon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A breakthrough work in neuroscience-and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience-that finally debunks the myth that there...
The Dream Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

The Dream Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

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Author: Jane Teresa Anderson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Your dreams contain wisdom and insight about your waking life - that's why they are so important. Using...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

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

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

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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...
Who Discovered What When

Who Discovered What When

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Author: David Ellyard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 p>An absorbing introduction to the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge in the last 500 years./p> p>strong>Who Discovered What...
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids

Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids

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Author: Meri Lao Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Their celestial voices drove mast-lashed Ulysses nearly out of his mind with libidinous promises as they beckoned him ever closer...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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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

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

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

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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 Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

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Author: Lewis Laney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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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....
Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

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Author: Mithu Sanyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape. From Title IX cases on campus,...
How to Read Freud

How to Read Freud

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Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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Author: Dr Guy Leschziner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands...