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By: Xenophon
ISBN: 9780140441758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1979
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 1979
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Details nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Presenting the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this title chronicles the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greece, and the wars with both Thebes and the might of Persia.
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By: Dr John Barton
ISBN: 9780141978505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780141985503
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780241298763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Mansfield
ISBN: 9780141988467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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While the struggle for peace in the Middle East remains one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, here is a fascinating and meticulously researched history of the region. In this masterful work, Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the volatile Middle East, creating a revealing political and social portrait.
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By: Dr Neil MacGregor
ISBN: 9780241951774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and also features objects which characterise the world we live in today.
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By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9780141034935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery. This title recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world.
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By: John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9780241953044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Venice of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the busiest and powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797.
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By: Sylvain Neuvel
ISBN: 9781405945530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Amanda Lindhout
ISBN: 9780670920860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity - an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241746929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9780140437850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering.
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By: Barry Hines
ISBN: 9780141184982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.
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By: Barry Hines
ISBN: 9780241978962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9781405947053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Eric Ambler
ISBN: 9780241606179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stacia Stark
ISBN: 9781405967693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sei Shonagon
ISBN: 9780241752081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jason Hazeley
ISBN: 9780241422724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241981610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anne Serre
ISBN: 9781837311194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241974834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hanif Abdurraqib
ISBN: 9780141995793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Rosanna Pike
ISBN: 9780241646069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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