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By: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9781843540564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 8th March 2007
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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'Remarkable . Armstrong has written not just a fascinating and highly readable history, but one which makes ancient philosophies profoundly relevant.' - Independent
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By: DK
ISBN: 9780241225929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2016
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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Charts world history from the dawn of civilisation to the modern culture we live in today. From the origins of homo-sapiens to the release of Nelson Mandela, from the French Revolution to the Space Race, this book presents an exploration of the human timeline up to and including modern Islam, the world wide web, and the global financial crisis.
(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.
(Hardback)
By: John Willis
ISBN: 9781785949005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Professor Margaret MacMillan
ISBN: 9781846682100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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If misrepresented, the past can cause confusion, conflict and tragedy. With care, it can help us to understand the present. Award-winning historian Margaret MacMillan proves that history really does matter.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Norman Ohler
ISBN: 9781838953607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of the bestselling Blitzed.
(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.
(Hardback)
By: Ann Chapman
ISBN: 9781742703022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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(Paperback)
By: Aidan McCarty
ISBN: 9781904943402
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2006
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes.
(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.
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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.
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By: Mike Dash
ISBN: 9780753816844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The true story of a mutiny, shipwreck, murder and survival.
By: Richard Woodman
ISBN: 9781473845732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Compelling new study of one of the major naval battles of the Second World War.
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By: Clint Smith
ISBN: 9780349704494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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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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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Nigel Steel
ISBN: 9780850526691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1998
UK Publication Date: 18th February 1999
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. Featuring photographs, this book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events. It is of interest to the armchair historian and the intrepid visitor to the sites.
(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
