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The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and im...

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2016 was 50 years on from when District Six was declared a whites only area and this publication commemorates this event in our history. This revis...

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These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines.A coherent political philo...

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In the first of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled it's most essential ideas on love in order to produce a bitesize manual ...

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With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith.In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, ...

'Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be old. And then you'll be dead. There...

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