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By: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780008555375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASAs African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in Americas space program.
(Paperback)
By: Pieter van Os
ISBN: 9781922585035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Parfitt
ISBN: 9781472294807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004.
(Paperback)
By: Ed Douglas
ISBN: 9781784704483
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world's highest mountains.
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By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780141184371
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease.
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By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780679721031
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 1989
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity.
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By: M.G. Sheftall
ISBN: 9781035422692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A sensitive and meticulously researched account of life in Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing, with extensive testimony from the few remaining survivors
(Hardback)
By: S.C. Gwynne
ISBN: 9780861547081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The forgotten story of Britains own Hindenburg disaster.
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By: Dr Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781786494146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A revolutionary and fun new book that reveals how everything, from beds and bubbles to sleep and signatures, has a history.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Dr Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781786497697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way.
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By: Dr Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781786497758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way.
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By: Dr Eileen Ka-May Cheng
ISBN: 9781441177674
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780008285722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance.
(Paperback)
By: Geoff Eley
ISBN: 9781839768132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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How History has changed in the half-century since the 1960s
(Hardback)
By: Toby Creswell
ISBN: 9780670077892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241666661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladhuri
ISBN: 9780755637447
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Christoph Baumer
ISBN: 9781788310079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Christoph Baumer
ISBN: 9780755636280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: J. R. H. Moorman
ISBN: 9780819214065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1980
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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This authoritative account of the Church in England covers its history from earliest times to the late twentieth century. Includes chapters on the Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Medieval periods before a description of the Reformation and its effects, the Stuart period, and the Industrial Age, with a final chapter on the modern church through 1972.
(Paperback)
By: Leon Trotsky
ISBN: 9780241301319
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241226148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241600948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2023
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Brendan Simms
ISBN: 9780141991849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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