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Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. Passionately argued, it raises important questions about the whole notion of progress, and explores the root causes of the malaise of industrial society. At the same time, the story of Ladakh serves as a source of inspiration for our own future.

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Presents an introduction to the history of ancient Mesopotamia and its civilizations, incorporating archaeological and historical finds up to 1992.

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Focusing on six momentous turning points that helped to shape Roman history, this work charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower - a political machine unmatched in its brutality, its genius, its lust for power. It also covers powerful men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine.

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Challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers and empires that swept across Central Asia to India and China - resulting in a truly global vision of ancient history.

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Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. This title presents the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the extraordinary lengths people go to watch and play it, and the tale of a national obsession.

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The August Prize-winning emotional story of a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA.

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And the Show Went On is an authoritative account of how Paris's artistic world lived through the Occupation, both of those who suffered Nazi oppression and those who prospered through collaboration.

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The writer/photographer team of Maharidge and Williamson return to the land and families captured in the inimitable Let us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton.

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A fascinating journey southwards along the world's longest mountain range, exploring the diverse geography and cultures of the terrain, and the compelling stories of Andean travellers past and present.

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Another pop history page-turner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

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A thought-provoking and entertaining twenty-first century look at what was once referred to as 'angelology', which searches out the origins of angels in religious thought, history, psychology and wider culture, and asks why, in an age of disbelief, they remain more compelling and comforting for many than God.

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A thought-provoking and entertaining twenty-first century look at what was once referred to as 'angelology', which searches out the origins of angels in religious thought, history, psychology and wider culture, and asks why, in an age of disbelief, they remain more compelling and comforting for many than God.

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The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.

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A collection of major works of Tacitus, one of the greatest historian of Roman empire. It includes such works as the "Annals" and the "Histories", "Agricola" and the "Germania".

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One of the most extraordinary mother and daughter stories of all time - Anne Boleyn, the most famous of Henry VIII's wives and her daughter Elizabeth, the 'Virgin Queen'.

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One of the most extraordinary mother and daughter stories of all time - Anne Boleyn, the most famous of Henry VIII's wives and her daughter Elizabeth, the 'Virgin Queen'.

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A prize-winning historian offers a major new history of the United States, placing faith and oil at the center of America's rise to global power

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A full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth and how it holds the key to all our futures

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Portrays the rise of anti-intellectualism in America during the McCarthy era.

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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer corrects misunderstandings about Jewish American history and gives an urgent call to action against the rise of antisemitism.

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Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. This title presents a portrait of the era of invention and glamour.

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The first book in a generation by a British author to tell the story of the Anzio landings and the bloody stalemate that followed

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The definitive story of the British army's most potent weapons system - the Apache attack helicopter - and of the men who fly her