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    Mankind: The Story of All Of Us

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    It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of ev...

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  • NEW SILK ROADS PB

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    A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Eveni...

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  • On This Day in History

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    On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dis...

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  • One Summer: America 1927

    Bill Bryson
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    In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood ...

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  • Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters

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    'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle Ages From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, ...

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  • PILGRIMAGE

    STANFORD, PETER
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    Pilgrimage, a global ritual embraced by all faiths, is one of the most enduring traits in our human story. In this compelling history Peter Stanfor...

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  • Places of Destiny: 50 Places Where History Was Made

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    In Places of Destiny, Ben Dupre offers a rich selection of dramatic historical events and locations: the resistance of Leonidas' Spartans, an endur...

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  • REBEL WOMEN BPB

    MILES, ROSALIND
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    'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, j...

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  • RELICS TPB

    WELDON OWEN,
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    Start your personal museum at home with Relics: A Bizarre History of the World Told in 201 Rare Fragments - from Ancient Rome to Dracula's Home. St...

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  • Rise And Fall (Paperback)

    Paul Strathern
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    Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...

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  • Rogues' Gallery: An Irreverent History Of Corruption In South Africa, From The VOC To The ANC (Paperback)

    Matthew Blackman; Nick Dall
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    If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story...

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  • Stalin (Paperback)

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    Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entoura...

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  • The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries

    Brad Meltzer
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    Previously collected in the interactive book History Decoded, these stories are now collected in a reading book for any history buff.

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  • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now

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    In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...

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  • Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

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  • The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: The Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb By The People Who Were There (Trade Paperback)

    Garrett M. Graff
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    'If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read Garrett Graff's THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY. Even if y...

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  • Spice: The 16th Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (Paperback)

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    The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and t...

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  • Henry V

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  • A New History Of Formal Schooling In South Africa 1658-1910

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  • Wrecked Deep Dive Shipwrecks HB

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    I Will Come Back For You (Trade Paperback)

    Daniel Huhn
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    'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war. I couldn't put it down' - Keith Lowe, author of Savage ContinentA gripp...

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  • Road Masters: 150 Cars That Changed the World (Hardcover)

    Dave Morley
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    The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist One ancient language transformed ou...

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    Mark Urban
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    ‘Punchy. Trenchant. Heavyweight. Mark Urban’s Tank blows the doors off, just as you’d expect from such an accomplished author. Take cover!’ Damien ...

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  • Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

    Ilan Pappe
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  • Pharaoh Art And Power In Ancient Egypt

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  • The Letters Of Private Wheeler 1809 - 1828

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    Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz (Trade Paperback)

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    In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty wom...

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  • Notorious (Trade Paperback)

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  • The Egyptian Book Of The Dead (Hardcover)

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    This luxurious hardback edition presents the classic ancient text, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, featuring gold gilded page edges and patterned en...

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  • History Of The World In Twelve Shipwrecks

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    The Residence: Inside The Private World Of The White House (Paperback)

    Kate Andersen Brower
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    A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the servic...

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  • Hector: A boy, a protest and the photo that changed Apartheid (Afrikaans)

    Adrienne Wright
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  • Classical World: All That Matters

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    Modern Western European culture would have been impossible without the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The disciplines of philosophy, dra...

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  • The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960

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    The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...

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  • The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons ...

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  • The Great Journeys In History

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    Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book...

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  • The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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    Travel thousands of years into our past and discover the significant events that shaped the world as we know it.From the founding of Baghdad, and t...

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  • MAKING HISTORY TPB

    Richard Cohen
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    THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William ...

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  • The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature

    Edward Brooke-Hitching
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    'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of ...

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  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    Peter Frankopan
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    For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...

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  • The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

    Derek Leebaert
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    One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embrac...

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  • The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

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    The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new ...

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  • Titans Of History

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    NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstei...

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  • Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents

    Peter Snow
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    A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience b...

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  • Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change (Paperback)

    Jared Diamond
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    'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global cri...

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