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  • The Blinded City: Ten Years In Inner-City Johannesburg (Paperback)

    Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
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    Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to kee...

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  • Seven Khoi Lives

    Protea Boekhuis
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  • Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (Hardcover)

    Greg Jenner
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    Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? ...

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  • Die Buiteposte

    Dan Sleigh
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  • The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

    Wordsworth Books
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  • 9780349704371

    A History of the World in Six Plagues (Paperback)

    Edna Bonhomme
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    An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply reported, insightful account of hum...

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  • The Gulag Archipelago

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...

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  • The Square And The Tower (Paperback)

    Niall Ferguson
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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at ...

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  • Written in History: Letters that Changed the World

    Wordsworth Books
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    INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...

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  • The Wide Wide Sea (Trade Paperback)

    Hampton Sides
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    On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution...

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  • Tao Te Ching (Hardcover)

    Lao Tzu
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    The Tao Te Ching came into existence some 2500 years ago, since when it has become the most influential text of Eastern philosophy. Best translated...

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  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Trade Paperback)

    Rashid Khalidi
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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, viv...

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  • Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 (Paperback)

    Max Hastings
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    The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastin...

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  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

    Lucy Adlington
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    *** The New York Times Bestseller *** 'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating...

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  • The Story of Ferrari: A Tribute to Automotive Excellence (Hardcover)

    Stuart Codling
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    The Story of Ferrari is a pocket-sized and exceptionally designed celebration of the legendary manufacturer. Speed, luxury, excellence and innov...

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  • East West Street (Paperback)

    Philippe Sands
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    THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the U...

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  • How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

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    From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-so...

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  • Landmarks (Paperback)

    Robert Macfarlane
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    Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of pl...

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  • Salt (Paperback)

    Mark Kurlansky
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    Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shap...

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  • The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj (Paperback)

    Anita Anand
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    Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held respon...

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  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    Wordsworth Books
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    *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* *Bill Gates' Top 5 books for 2020* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STOR...

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  • The Library: A Fragile History

    Asger Harding Granerud
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    LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Timely ... a long and engrossing ...

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  • 9781785787850

    The Illustrated Etymologicon (Hardcover)

    Mark Forsyth
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    The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the Engl...

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  • A Little History of Philosophy

    Wordsworth Books
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    For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life ...

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