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(Paperback)
By: Denis Byrne
ISBN: 9780522880229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lucas Jordan
ISBN: 9781742238098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Leigh Eric Schmidt
ISBN: 9780691217253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ian Buruma
ISBN: 9781786494672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
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By: Charlie English
ISBN: 9780008495138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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By: Julius Caesar
ISBN: 9780140441871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1977
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recording the events of the author's life, who is a military leader, this title depicts his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa.
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By: Appian
ISBN: 9780140445091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1989
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Covering the period from the rise of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the eve of the Battle of Actium, this book offers a narrative of this crucial phase of Roman history, making the conflict "within" the Roman state to the exclusion of other material and tracing the economic and social factors.
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By: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780140445343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism.
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By: Mark Daniels
ISBN: 9781789297140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world.
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By: Patrick Lindsay
ISBN: 9781742753126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Ian Bradley
ISBN: 9781780277790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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'Coffin roads' are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the distinctive traditions, beliefs and practices around dying, death and mourning in the communities which created and used them.
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By: Odd Arne Westad
ISBN: 9780141979915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Professor Keith Hopkins
ISBN: 9781846684708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2011
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena
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By: Paul Simpson
ISBN: 9781781256268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A kaleidoscopic compendium of colour cultures and meanings that will change the way you see the spectrum.
(Hardback)
By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781786692689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the modern world.
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By: Julius S. Scott
ISBN: 9781788732482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era
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By: Tom Keneally
ISBN: 9780143790839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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By: Phil Gasper
ISBN: 9781931859257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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An authoritative introduction to history's most important political document, with the full text of the Manifesto.
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By: Andrei Soldatov
ISBN: 9781541730175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country---be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
(Paperback, Revised and updated)
By: Nigel McCrery
ISBN: 9781787396876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The full story of the SAS, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa during World War II to present action in the Middle East, and incorporates jungle, desert and urban warfare, counter-terrorism and an insider's view at the selection and training methods employed by this usually secretive unit.
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By: Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN: 9781786635341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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By: Bernal Diaz del Castillo
ISBN: 9780140441239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1963
UK Publication Date: 26th July 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.
(Hardback, Revised, Revised)
By: Alan Dershowitz
ISBN: 9781631584824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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By: Stuart Kells
ISBN: 9780522876598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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What was behind the wall and the wire The local people knew. Fine courtyards. An old swimming pool. Dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of a site's rich history and the efforts to preserve it. This is an uplifting tale of community activism.
