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From the author of The Pike winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.

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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. This title presents the event with an account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds.

his Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history and politics of the 20th century.

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By turns bizarre, surprising, trivial, and enlightening, History without the Boring Bits offers rich pickings for the browser, and entertainment and inspiration aplenty for those who have grown weary of more conventional works of history.

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Featuring the important events and figures that have shaped the present, from the very origins of humanity to key contemporary issues, such as the development of the internet and social media, this book focuses on key profiles of major figures, exploration of important inventions and explanation of significant ideologies that defined their time.

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'Adam Zamoyski's dashing account of the romantic movement, HOLY MADNESS, is bold narrative history at its most imaginative' Observer

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Explores the seminal contributions of Scotland to the development of modern Western civilization, discussing the impact of such ideals as democracy, freedom of speech, equal opportunity, and a commitment to education.

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"Some of the material in this book appears in The Zinn Reader, 2nd ed., Seven Stories Press, 2009"--T.p. verso.

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Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.

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An odyssey through 2,000 years of filth and fury, where men were men, the nights were black, the world was your outside toilet and everything tasted faintly of leeks.

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Information is broken down into manageable bite-sized chunks, refreshing your memory of all those things you once knew but have forgotten, and filling you in on the bits that the school syllabus didnt include. From building the pyramids in Egypt to the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything you used to know and much that you didnt is here.

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Traces the history of material acquisition and how it reflects culture, discussing the psychological factors that result in the human desire to acquire things, and noting how an increasing choice of goods over time has accompanied a growing sense of individual possibility. Reprint. 15,000 first prin

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Forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about the war and illuminates an unjustly neglected period of his life the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street and delivered some of the most important speeches of his career.

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Published to tie-in with the new series of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, IN OUR TIME guides us through the most significant moments in our history.

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The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left us

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Beautifully packaged, this book is an ideal gift for anyone who would like to learn more about history but who doesn't have much time.

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On 12th April 1981 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. She was the world's first real spaceship. On board were men with the Right Stuff. The Shuttle's Commander, moonwalker John Young, was already a veteran of five spaceflights. This book tells the complete story of the Space Shuttle.

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An indispensable primer for understanding the current Middle East crisis, Israeli journalist Tanya Reinhart here closely examines the roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict and offers an invaluable analysis of core issues involved on all sides of the issue, concluding with a proposal for moving beyond the violence towards.

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In a series of journeys through space and time, this book examines our relationship with the landscape around us - rivers, mountains, forests - the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs.

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In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the work of a little-known African American named Robert Gilbert. "Looking for Mr. Gilbert" is filled with music, natural history, African-American history, and the world of early photography as Mitchell uncovers the life of this remarkable American.

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A chorus of first-person accounts from the international front lines of the human rights struggle.