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By: Henry Gee

ISBN: 9781035032242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Nature editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction, while suggesting how, through technological innovation, we might indefinitely postpone our fate.


(Paperback)

By: Erik Larson

ISBN: 9780008681760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil Wara slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.


(Paperback, Reissue)

By: David Grann

ISBN: 9781398540644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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An investigative odyssey from Samuel Johnson-shortlisted author David Grann to unravel twelve great, real-life mysteries


(Hardback)

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

ISBN: 9781398503557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A lavishly illustrated guide to how humanity has imagined heavens, hells and the afterlife


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By: Jeremy Reed

ISBN: 9780720615890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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By: Graham Robb

ISBN: 9781035039197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An exciting voyage on two wheels, Graham Robb's award-winning classic offers a stunning alternative history of France.


(Paperback, illustrated edition)

By: Paul Moon

ISBN: 9781877378263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited
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The Edges of Empires is a captivating and intimate account of New Zealand in the 1850s. It depicts magnificently the character and temperament of New Zealand in one of the nation's most formative decades.


(Paperback)

By: Ranulph Fiennes

ISBN: 9781471156632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-SAS officer,Ranulph Fiennes.


(Paperback)

By: Tony James Brady

ISBN: 9781922265364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: David M. Luebke

ISBN: 9781350253278
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Conon Fraser

ISBN: 9781877578595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Robert Tombs

ISBN: 9780141031651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric dreamtime. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of England.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Christopher Hibbert

ISBN: 9780586084717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1989
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A social history tracing the development of English society over a period of 900 years. This evocation of the past covers life in castles, palaces and monasteries, in the homes of rich merchants and in the hovels of peasants, describing in detail every aspect of medieval and modern life.


(Hardback)

By: Patrick Lindsay

ISBN: 9781740663144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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Kokoda is more than just the name of a military campaign. In this account, Kindsay captures the essence of the battles, and the heroes who helped defend Australia from invasion in 1942.


(Paperback)

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

ISBN: 9780304366422
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 9th October 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.


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By: David Weaver

ISBN: 9780473511524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Pepped Warbeck Publishing
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In this passionately written book, Weaver asks, and responds to, the question, How is religion to survive and continue to play its all-important role in the modern, materialistic and sceptical environment prevalent in much of the world today


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By: Joy Neighbors

ISBN: 9781440352126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: F&W Publications Inc
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Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves.


(Paperback)

By: Elliot Ackerman

ISBN: 9780008532680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Times Political Book of the Year 2022

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the wars echoing legacy.


(Hardback)

By: Rafal Milach

ISBN: 9781910401170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: GOST Books
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Author retells the historical children's strike in Wrzenia in Poland through collaged archive photographs from the 1950s and 1960.


(Paperback)

By: Simon Parkin

ISBN: 9781399714549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 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


(Paperback)

By: Saul David

ISBN: 9780008701086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Hailed as 'masterly' (Wall Street Journal) and a 'monumental achievement' (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible WWII mission.


(Hardback)

By: Louis Menand

ISBN: 9780007126873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense economic and political, artistic and personal.


(Paperback)

By: Sue Smethurst

ISBN: 9781760890308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Peter Watson

ISBN: 9781471128981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A sweeping tour of French history from the 17th century to the present day from the highly acclaimed author of The German Genius

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