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By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
ISBN: 9781857026863
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Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780141041865
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Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
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, 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.
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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his Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history and politics of the 20th century.
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By: Ian Crofton
ISBN: 9781848668683
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Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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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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By: DK
ISBN: 9780241201305
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Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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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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By: Adam Zamoyski
ISBN: 9781474615211
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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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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By: Arthur Herman
ISBN: 9780609809990
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Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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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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By: Howard Zinn
ISBN: 9781609801328
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Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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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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By: Ian Mortimer
ISBN: 9780099593386
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Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Tim Moore
ISBN: 9780099492986
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Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Emma Marriott
ISBN: 9781782434481
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Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2023
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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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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By: Thomas Hine
ISBN: 9780060959838
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Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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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By: DR David Reynolds
ISBN: 9780141019642
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Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Melvyn Bragg
ISBN: 9780340977521
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Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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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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By: Alfred W. McCoy
ISBN: 9781786074911
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Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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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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By: Sandra Lawrence
ISBN: 9781787393295
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Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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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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By: Rowland White
ISBN: 9780552160223
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Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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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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By: Tanya Reinhart
ISBN: 9781583226513
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Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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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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By: Bill Fawcett
ISBN: 9780380807710
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Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9780006863489
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Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Janina Ramirez
ISBN: 9780753560419
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Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Travis Elborough
ISBN: 9781529109948
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Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: John Hanson Mitchell
ISBN: 9781593761424
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Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Counterpoint
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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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By: Ariel Dorfman
ISBN: 9781583225639
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Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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A chorus of first-person accounts from the international front lines of the human rights struggle.
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