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By: Edmund de Waal
ISBN: 9781529114294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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I know your street rather well.
Count Mose de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Murray Dahm
ISBN: 9781472843517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This detailed new study explores the battle of Leuctra and the tactics that ultimately led to the complete defeat of Sparta, and freed Greece from domination by Sparta in a single afternoon.
(Paperback)
By: Helena Attlee
ISBN: 9780141991078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Philip Mansel
ISBN: 9780719567087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2011
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age
(Hardback)
By: Julie Peakman
ISBN: 9781789148473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Unveils the complex sex lives of libertine women in eighteenth-century London.
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By: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 9780642277022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: National Library of Australia
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Library of Dreams interprets and celebrates a diverse selection of treasures from the rich and varied collections of the National Library of Australia. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this souvenir publication examines what makes a national treasure and inspires readers to take a closer look at what libraries reveal about Australia's heritage.
(Paperback, Revised Edition)
By: James W. Loewen
ISBN: 9781595589859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: The New Press
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Some myths don't die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he 'discovered' the Americas, that the land was sparsely populated by native people, that those people were primitive and that they submitted to Columbus's 'God-like' authority.
(Paperback, Revised Edition)
By: James W. Loewen
ISBN: 9781620973929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: The New Press
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A new edition with a new preface by the author of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, which has sold over two million copies.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: John Nicol
ISBN: 9781922079398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe.
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By: Frances Gies
ISBN: 9780062415660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th August 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Medieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Giess classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages.
(Paperback)
By: Selina Mills
ISBN: 9781350507210
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mariame Kaba
ISBN: 9781642599015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Paperback)
By: Craig Horne
ISBN: 9781922779052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Melbourne Books
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(Paperback)
By: Jeevan Vasagar
ISBN: 9780349144481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial Times
(Hardback)
By: Beaty Rubens
ISBN: 9781851246311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Listen In explores the sensational early history of radio from the perspective of listeners through previously unpublished testimonies.
(Paperback)
By: Heather Walton
ISBN: 9780719060915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Dan Taylor
ISBN: 9780762497539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Running Press,U.S.
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Teach your baby all about archaeologists with this new board book published in partnership with Smithsonian.
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By: Jacques Peretti
ISBN: 9781473646445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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'That nickname . . .'
'"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected.
"Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'
(Paperback, Main)
By: Alwyn Turner
ISBN: 9781800815315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and popular culture
(Paperback, 1)
By: Jane Robertson
ISBN: 9781991016539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Massey University Press
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An illustrated history of the people who settled in the many bays of Whakaraup Lyttelton Harbour full of finely observed insights into the challenges of living in small, remote communities.
(Paperback)
By: David Ekardt
ISBN: 9781667854960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Maureen Waller
ISBN: 9781529338157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Reissued to commemorate the 75th VE Day anniversary, the critically acclaimed social history of London, during a crucial year in the city's great history, from the acclaimed writer of 1700: Scenes from London life.
(Paperback)
By: Stephen Alford
ISBN: 9780141978116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Barber
ISBN: 9780712358798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2012
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation.
