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Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
Richard OvendenOriginal price R 355.00 - Original price R 355.00Original price R 355.00R 355.00R 355.00 - R 355.00Current price R 355.00Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the ...
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By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 240.00 - Original price R 240.00Original price R 240.00R 240.00R 240.00 - R 240.00Current price R 240.00The art and science of sword fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorde...
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Cape Camera
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
20210701Original price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of ...
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Cleopatra the Great: The woman behind the legend
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 224.95 - Original price R 224.95Original price R 224.95R 224.95R 224.95 - R 224.95Current price R 224.95Cleopatra is a truly iconic figure: the last Egyptian Pharaoh and arguably the greatest. But she is also a mythical figure, mainly known through Sh...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
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CRAFT BPB
DICKIE, JOHNOriginal price R 264.99Original price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99Current price R 185.50R 185.50 - R 185.50Current price R 185.50'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street JournalTHE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020'This book shows that, despite rumours of de...
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Crucible
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Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original price R 350.00R 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.00In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to make his triumphal entry into...
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CULT OF PROGRESS BPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 410.00 - Original price R 410.00Original price R 410.00R 410.00R 410.00 - R 410.00Current price R 410.00Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama Oscar Wilde said 'Life im...
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Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
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Die Buiteposte
Dan SleighOriginal price R 520.00 - Original price R 520.00Original price R 520.00R 520.00R 520.00 - R 520.00Current price R 520.00Original price R 520.00 - Original price R 520.00Original price R 520.00R 520.00R 520.00 - R 520.00Current price R 520.00Save 0% Save % -
Disputed Land: The Historical Development of the South African Land Issue, 1652-2011
Louis ChanguionOriginal price R 265.00 - Original price R 265.00Original price R 265.00R 265.00R 265.00 - R 265.00Current price R 265.00Original price R 265.00 - Original price R 265.00Original price R 265.00R 265.00R 265.00 - R 265.00Current price R 265.00Save 0% Save % -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 360.00 - Original price R 360.00Original price R 360.00R 360.00R 360.00 - R 360.00Current price R 360.00'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific le...
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DRESSED FOR WAR PB
SUMMERS, JULIEOriginal price R 260.00 - Original price R 260.00Original price R 260.00R 260.00R 260.00 - R 260.00Current price R 260.00'Magnificent ... Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloy...
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Enemy of All Mankind TPB
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Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
Otto EnglishOriginal price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00Original price R 290.00R 290.00R 290.00 - R 290.00Current price R 290.00An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.Lincoln did not believe all...
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GRAVEDIGGERS BPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 300.00 - Original price R 300.00Original price R 300.00R 300.00R 300.00 - R 300.00Current price R 300.00November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes....
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Great Imperial Hangover
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 285.00 - Original price R 285.00Original price R 285.00R 285.00R 285.00 - R 285.00Current price R 285.00'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we...
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Great Speeches: Words that Shaped the World
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Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 345.00 - Original price R 345.00Original price R 345.00R 345.00R 345.00 - R 345.00Current price R 345.00'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across t...
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GUN, THE SHIP, AND THE PEN HB
COLLEY, LINDAOriginal price R 685.00 - Original price R 685.00Original price R 685.00R 685.00R 685.00 - R 685.00Current price R 685.00Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disr...
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Here En Boere: Die Kolonie Aan Die Kaap Onder Die Van Der Stels, 1679-1712: Boek 5
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History matters: Selected writings, 1970-2016
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 180.00 - Original price R 180.00Original price R 180.00R 180.00R 180.00 - R 180.00Current price R 180.00History Matters is an eloquent selection of writings over four decades by Bill Nasson, one of South Africa's most popular and highly respected hist...
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Images of the Past: A Century of Man-Made Disasters
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LAND TPB
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Last Duel (Paperback)
Eric JagerOriginal price R 215.00 - Original price R 215.00Original price R 215.00R 215.00R 215.00 - R 215.00Current price R 215.00Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery t...
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Letters to Change the World
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 240.01 - Original price R 240.01Original price R 240.01R 240.01R 240.01 - R 240.01Current price R 240.01'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther K...
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Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
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Living the Love: Emily Hobhouse Post-War (1918-1926)
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MAGNA CARTA PB
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Maoism: A Global History
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Mankind: The Story of All Of Us
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 630.00Original price R 630.00 - Original price R 630.00Original price R 630.00Current price R 441.00R 441.00 - R 441.00Current price R 441.00It 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
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 395.00 - Original price R 395.00Original price R 395.00R 395.00R 395.00 - R 395.00Current price R 395.00A 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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