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(Hardback)
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
ISBN: 9781398532373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.
(Hardback)
By: James Barron
ISBN: 9781616205188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Through the lives of the nine collectors who bought and sold the One-Cent Magenta stamp the most valuable object in the world by weight since it was issued in 1856, Barron gives us an inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, with fascinating history along the way.
(Paperback, Main)
By: David Frye
ISBN: 9780571348428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In a colourful narrative of invasions, empires, kings, and khans, David Frye presents a bold new theory of civilization: walls haven't just influenced the course of history; they have profoundly shaped the human psyche.
(Hardback)
By: Alexandra Richie
ISBN: 9780007180417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days.
(Paperback)
By: Alex Woolf
ISBN: 9781788280174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Christian Grataloup
ISBN: 9780500252659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2023
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Harman
ISBN: 9781786630810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Jankowski
ISBN: 9781781256985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.
(Paperback)
By: Clint Smith
ISBN: 9780349704494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alexander Norman
ISBN: 9780349146454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Wright
ISBN: 9780790008523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kenneth W. Harl
ISBN: 9781526630421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Kevin J. Brown
ISBN: 9788854415188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: White Star
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This book is an overview of plans, maps, and occasionally map-views of great cities all over the world.
(Hardback)
By: Alfredo Luis Somoza
ISBN: 9788854415324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: White Star
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Some events more than others have changed the pace and determined the direction that history has taken along its rugged path. Inconsistencies that are not always clearly evident occur much more frequently when the events of humanity speed up. Such was the case in the mid-twentieth century.
(Paperback)
By: Ken Adams
ISBN: 9781399030915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Mike Jay
ISBN: 9781594773938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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"An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals"--Provided by publisher.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Furtado
ISBN: 9780500293003
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2017
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A unique lens through which to view the modern world: 28 insider accounts of national histories, now available in B-format paperback.
(Paperback)
By: Nigel Blundell
ISBN: 9781526748683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Fresh insights into a century of major disasters caused by human error with more than 100 photographs graphically demonstrating this needless carnage.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Orr
ISBN: 9780947493462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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A new look at the New Zealand Forest Service, the development of our pulp and paper industry, and the state of our forests.
(Hardback)
By: Greg Melville
ISBN: 9781419754852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Abrams
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A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead
(Paperback)
By: Peter Stanford
ISBN: 9780500296639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Furtado
ISBN: 9780500296134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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An eye-opening anthology from the bestselling editor of Histories of Nations, exploring how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present.
(Paperback, MMP)
By: Johan Norberg
ISBN: 9781786070654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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In the time that it takes you to read the first chapter,over 2,000 people will have escaped from poverty
(Paperback)
By: Robert C Davis
ISBN: 9780500293805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2019
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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An engaging and witty compendium of ninety-four notable men and women who shaped and experienced one of the most creative and inventive periods in human civilization.
