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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
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The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature
Edward Brooke-HitchingOriginal price R 740.00 - Original price R 740.00Original price R 740.00R 740.00R 740.00 - R 740.00Current price R 740.00'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 New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Paperback)
Peter FrankopanOriginal price R 385.00Original price R 385.00 - Original price R 385.00Original price R 385.00Current price R 269.50R 269.50 - R 269.50Current price R 269.50From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard The N...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter FrankopanOriginal price R 510.00 - Original price R 510.00Original price R 510.00R 510.00R 510.00 - R 510.00Current price R 510.00For 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 Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00Original price R 320.00R 320.00R 320.00 - R 320.00Current price R 320.00THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt Most history is about the peop...
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99R 264.99R 264.99 - R 264.99Current price R 264.99It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life again...
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The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 615.00 - Original price R 615.00Original price R 615.00R 615.00R 615.00 - R 615.00Current price R 615.00'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a c...
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The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 355.00 - Original price R 355.00Original price R 355.00R 355.00R 355.00 - R 355.00Current price R 355.00One 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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Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
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Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents
Peter SnowOriginal price R 665.00 - Original price R 665.00Original price R 665.00R 665.00R 665.00 - R 665.00Current price R 665.00A 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)
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Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them
W.B. MarshOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us...
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Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females
Kate HodgesOriginal price R 495.00 - Original price R 495.00Original price R 495.00R 495.00R 495.00 - R 495.00Current price R 495.00Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses...
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WE NEED SNOWFLAKES TPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Is today's youth over sensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually pathetic?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our...
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Kara CooneyOriginal price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00Original price R 290.00R 290.00R 290.00 - R 290.00Current price R 290.00This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and sh...
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Women with Silver Wings HB
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Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
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The Coming Civil War
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Trade Paperback)
Irene VallejoOriginal price R 470.00 - Original price R 470.00Original price R 470.00R 470.00R 470.00 - R 470.00Current price R 470.00'A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literat...
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Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century (Trade Paperback)
Joyce TyldesleyOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...
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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
Footnote Press LtdOriginal price R 310.01 - Original price R 310.01Original price R 310.01R 310.01R 310.01 - R 310.01Current price R 310.01WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...
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To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description ...
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The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chr...
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