StartPrev880881882883884885886887888NextEnd
(Paperback)
By: Elisenda Vila Llonch
ISBN: 9780714125411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2013
Publisher: British Museum Press
See more...
Drawing on the spectacular collections of the Museum del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 100 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold and its alloy tumbaga, including small votive figures, decorative nose rings and earrings, vessels, pectorals and masks.
(Paperback)
By: Stephen L. Moore
ISBN: 9780593475843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2024
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Eileen Rivers
ISBN: 9780306903076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books
See more...
A riveting account of four women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men in Iraq and Afghanistan and worked with local women to restore their lives and village communities
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Rader
ISBN: 9781471186509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
See more...
Brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader provides a stunning history of human exploration and assesses where our desire to explore could take us next.
(Paperback)
By: Adam Shoalts
ISBN: 9780735236851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Katja Hoyer
ISBN: 9780241553787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Howard Goodall
ISBN: 9780099283546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history.
(Paperback)
By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9780340748824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
(Paperback)
By: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472845962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck.
(Paperback)
By: Harriet Swain
ISBN: 9780099468462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries about the course of human events. It takes ride over continents and across centuries in search of answers that are sometimes surprising, often controversial, and of great relevance to how we live today.
(Paperback)
By: Douglas C. Dildy
ISBN: 9781472824516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary "Big Week" air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.
(Paperback)
By: Bill Yenne
ISBN: 9780425272244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Dallek
ISBN: 9781541673564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Basic Books
See more...
How the John Birch Society, a fringe reactionary group, popularized conspiracy and radicalized modern conservatism
(Paperback, Main)
By: Maurice Walsh
ISBN: 9780571243013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
See more...
A new history of the Irish revolution, placing it in context of the global revolutions of the age.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Wheelan
ISBN: 9781472849502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War's "forgotten battle" of Peleliu -- a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.
(Hardback)
By: David Long
ISBN: 9781472109316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
See more...
A charming gift book of the strangest and most intriguing stories of London.
(Paperback)
By: David Olusoga
ISBN: 9781529065602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
See more...
An updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.
(Paperback)
By: Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780349009261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
See more...
An Oprah Book title telling the true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history.
(Paperback)
By: Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9780099887805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1993
UK Publication Date: 21st November 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots in Afroasiatic cultures, and that these influences have been systematically ignored, suppressed or denied since the 18th century.
(Paperback)
By: Jack Johnson
ISBN: 9781098394462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Catherine Bailey
ISBN: 9780141019239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. This title tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part.
(Paperback)
By: Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9781784701482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.
(Hardback)
By: Gretchen Gerzina
ISBN: 9781399804882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
(Paperback)
By: Gretchen Gerzina
ISBN: 9781399804905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
