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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Stone
ISBN: 9781101990599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.
(Hardback)
By: Simon Parkin
ISBN: 9781399714556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the winner of the Wingate Literary Prize, a gripping untold story of the world's most valuable library of plants, the siege of Leningrad and a terrible choice
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By: Christopher Duggan
ISBN: 9780141013909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This book while sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, distinguishes this from its political role over the past two centuries, which has been both vicious and ruinous for Europe as a whole.
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By: Dexter Filkins
ISBN: 9780099523048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of war.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Murray
ISBN: 9781098326500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Alexander Watson
ISBN: 9780141986333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Edward M. Lamont
ISBN: 9780810896079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our countrys formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of Americas earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution.
(Hardback)
By: Carl J. Richard
ISBN: 9781442254640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrea Wulf
ISBN: 9780099525622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.
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By: Dr Stephen Badsey
ISBN: 9781472851369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Updated and revised, with all new images throughout, this concise study examines the Franco-Prussian war, a significant conflict which led to the collapse of the Second Empire and the creation of a unified Germany.
(Hardback)
By: Joyce E. Chaplin
ISBN: 9780374613808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2025
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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The surprising story of Benjamin Franklins most famous invention - and a new take on the Founding Father we thought we knew.
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By: Peter Eisner
ISBN: 9780060096649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Traces the contributions of the Comet Line heroes of World War II, describing their establishment of safe houses, transportation links, and support services for which resistance fighters risked their lives to rescue stranded Allied forces, in a volume that focuses on the story of a particular group of operatives and the pilot they saved. Reprint. 1
(Paperback)
By: Steven J. Zaloga
ISBN: 9781472839305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the first English-language history of the legendary French 75mm field gun, which revolutionized artillery firepower and helped save France in 1914.
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By: OBE Andrew Hussey
ISBN: 9781847082596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2015
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the leading British commentator on France, this is an absorbing, vivid, and monumental account of the tortured relationship between France and its ex-colonies, from the first days of Empire to the ongoing eruptions of violence in the Parisian suburbs.
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By: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9780140049459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1982
UK Publication Date: 28th January 1982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup d'etat' that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. This book explains the drama and complexities of this era.
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By: Dr David Andress
ISBN: 9781788540087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A short and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and the demand for liberty, equality and fraternity central to modern politics.
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By: Thomas Carlyle
ISBN: 9780375760228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The classic history of the origins, events, and results of the French Revolution from 1774 to 1795.
(Hardback)
By: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9780008532727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.
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By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
ISBN: 9781472824882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Charles Emmerson
ISBN: 9780099523536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century. This title weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges.
(Hardback)
By: Felicity Day
ISBN: 9781788706391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Herbert Asbury
ISBN: 9780099436744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2003
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The classic book about gangs in 19th-century New York, now filmed by Martin Scorsese. The story tells of the city's dire abysmal poverty and violence, researched from stories, memory and police records.
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By: Kelly Grovier
ISBN: 9780719561337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2009
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The extraordinary human story of London's most infamous prison
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By: Edwy Plenel
ISBN: 9781635425598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 9th September 2025
Publisher: Other Press LLC
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