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  • A Desire to Return to the Ruins (Paperback)

    Lucas Ledwaba
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    A Desire to Return to the Ruins looks at the contentious issues of land reform and restitution in post-apartheid South Africa. It tells the stories...

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    This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodes’s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa,...

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  • The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England (Paperback)

    Dan Jones
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    This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. Th...

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    James O'Connell
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  • When the Clock Broke (Paperback)

    John Ganz
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  • Dali: Masters Of Art (Paperback)

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    Although Salvador Dalí’s characteristically provocative behavior and bizarre pictorial language made him an outlier in high society, his body of wo...

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    Carl Alberts
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    After twenty years of armed conflict in Angola and political instability in coup-ridden Sierra Leone going back to 1991, private corporate financia...

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  • Studio Ghibli: Castle in the Sky Sketchbook (Hardcover)

    Studio Ghibli
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    About this item STUDIO GHIBLI COLLECTIBLE: Take your artwork to new heights with this sketchbook celebrating Castle in the Sky, Studio Ghibli’s sp...

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  • If Russia Wins (Paperback)

    Carlo Masala
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    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. Af...

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    Wendy Holden
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    The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, R...

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    Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Paperback)

    Bee Wilson
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    Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charmi...

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    On Democracies & Death Cults (Trade Paperback)

    Douglas Murray
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    From the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author In On Democracies and Death Cults, bestselling author Douglas Murray argues how no less than the ...

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  • The History Of Ideas (Paperback)

    Wordsworth Books
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    Wordsworth Books
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    Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau
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    More urgent than ever: as we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together two seminal essa...

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  • Hiroshima (Paperback)

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    'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, a...

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  • Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Hardcover)

    Alice Loxton
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    'Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight' – Tracy Borman, bestselling historianBiggest books to look out for in 2024 – The...

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  • Composite Warfare 2E

    Eeben Barlow
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  • Invisible Doctrine (Hardcover)

    George Monbiot
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    This book is dynamite' - Caroline Lucas | 'Fantastic' - Mark Ruffalo We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our educati...

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  • A Short History of Russia (Paperback)

    Mark Galeotti
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    'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCa...

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    DK
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    13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

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    W Potter
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  • Megatastic Colouring: Dinosaurs

    Curious Universe
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    Mehran Gul
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    The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, we...

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  • Should The World Fear China?

    Zhou Bo
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    For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do ...

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  • The Girl Prince

    Danell Jones
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    In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading...

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  • Hamas

    Khalida Popal
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    Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) was created in 1987, won the elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006, and governed the Gaz...

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  • To Die With Such Men

    Shannon Monaghan
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    This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians c...

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  • Other Losses

    James Bacque
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    CIA Book Club (Trade Paperback)

    Charlie English
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    The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the...

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  • The Man with Miraculous Hands: The Incredible Story of Himmler's Physician Who Saved Thousands of Lives (Hardcover)

    Joseph Kessel
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    An extraordinary portrait of life at the heart of Heinrich Himmler's court at the heart of the Nazi Regime. In 1938, before the outbreak of the Sec...

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  • The Gathering Bag: Remembering The Heroines Of Traditional San Stories (Paperback)

    Sue Hollingsworth
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    The Gathering Bag brings together ten traditional narratives originally told in the ancient !xun language, passed on by word of mouth for generatio...

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  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Paperback)

    Ernesto Che Guevara
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    An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle At the age of twenty-thre...

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  • The Encyclopedia Of Ancient Roman Empire: An Illustrated Guide (Paperback)

    Carlos Gómez
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    Rome may have fallen in the late fifth century CE, but more than 1,500 years later its mark on Europe and around the Mediterranean is still evident...

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  • The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 (Paperback)

    Wordsworth Books
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    A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year‘Robert Darnton is one of the world’s greatest historians, and this is an ...

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  • The Book Makers (Paperback)

    Adam Smyth
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    A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.* AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 *...

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  • The Shortest History Of Germany (Paperback)

    James Hawes
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    An acclaimed international bestseller which tells the story of Europe’s most admired and feared country, from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von B...

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  • The Traitor of Colditz: The Untold Story of Britain's Bravest Double Agent (Paperback)

    Robert Verkaik
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    'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... ...

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  • Abolition: Politics, Practices , Promises Volume 1

    Angela Y Davis
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    An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abo...

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  • Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property (Hardcover)

    Adam Raz
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    Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and resident...

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    Michael Wolff
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    All or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald T...

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    Eddy Moloka
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    The Case for a Second Republic: South Africa’s Second Chance is a timely intervention that navigates South Africa’s transition as a republic over t...

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  • Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza (Trade Paperback)

    Peter Beinart
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    In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance...

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  • Apartheid: An Illustrated History 3rd Edition (Hardcover)

    Michael Morris
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    The thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...

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  • Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

    Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
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    Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look ...

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  • Tyranny Of The Minority (Paperback)

    Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
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    THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Min...

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    The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide (Paperback)

    Nice Leng'ete
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    An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for gi...

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  • Apartheid Spies And The Revolutionary Underground (Paperback)

    Billy Keniston
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    On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeane...

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