(Paperback)
By: Will Buckingham
ISBN: 9781783785667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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This timely exploration of our history of welcoming strangers offers a powerful, uplifting antidote to our increasingly atomised world.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback, Main)
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)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241226148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Riley Knight
ISBN: 9781761472589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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True stories of extraordinary deaths throughout history to the modern day from the host of the popular Half-Arsed History podcast.
By: Stephen Weir
ISBN: 9781741960518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Murdoch Books
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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - George Santayana, philosopher and writerMankind's past is strewn with mistakes - colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. Some unlucky people didn't always set out to cause the mayhem they did, but somehow things just went wrong. Really wrong.
(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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(Hardback)
By: Hal Johnson
ISBN: 9781250809674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2023
Publisher: Odd Dot
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(Hardback)
By: Dominic Lieven
ISBN: 9780241284421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dominic Lieven
ISBN: 9780141984452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: David K. Randall
ISBN: 9780063371408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Barry Wood
ISBN: 9781785274756
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
(Paperback, 2nd)
By: Ann Curthoys
ISBN: 9781742231716
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is and might be written.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780008359157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.
(Paperback)
By: Nicols Kanellos
ISBN: 9781578596119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
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(Hardback)
By: Nicols Kanellos
ISBN: 9781578597789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
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(Hardback)
By: Alex Deane
ISBN: 9781785907104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2021
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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Lessons from History is a joyful romp through the obscurest parts of the past, scouring the annals for overlooked figures and events that nonetheless left a footprint, and bringing them hilariously and often poignantly back to life.
(Paperback)
By: Julian Sancton
ISBN: 9780753553466
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Sharon Kinoshita
ISBN: 9781789149371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A vivid account of Marco Polo's astounding, continent-spanning adventures.
(Paperback, 6th edition)
By: Norman Lowe
ISBN: 9781350933408
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Sam Miller
ISBN: 9780349144443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Humans are the most migratory species of all land mammals. Migrants cuts through the toxic debates about refugees versus economic migrants to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.
(Hardback)
By: Paolo Zannoni
ISBN: 9781804542804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jean Markale
ISBN: 9780892810901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Piesing
ISBN: 9780062851536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
