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From the dawn of civilization to the first decade of the 21st century, this straightforwardly written, superbly accessible reference distills the essence of world history into a single compact volume. Featuring more than 1,000 illustrations, its a book as vivid as it is definitive.

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More than six hundred remarkable photographic images, accompanied by incisive commentary from leading historians, explorers, and scientists, offer a visual chronicle of the events, trends, people, fashions, and discoveries that shaped the course of the twentieth century. Original.

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The discovery and exploration of Antarctica is revealed through memoirs, letters, and ship's logs, including James Cook's first glimpse of the South Pole in the eighteenth century, as well as Richard Byrd's winter in Antarctica alone. Reprint.

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The Last Days of Budapest tells the powerful story of one of the least-known but most important episodes of the Second World War: life and death in the Hungarian capital from autumn 1944 to early 1945, a gripping story of spies, fanaticism, genocide and military disaster.

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Tells a story of thirteen modern Empires, that is full of suspense, cruelty, conflict, heroism, great explorations and extraordinary feats of endurance, with a profusion of illustrations drawn from a wide range of vivid sources.

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Lyn Macdonald's account of the First World War during 1915.

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.

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Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers a new perspective on the future through these controversial symbols of our identity.

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The entertaining and surprising stories that lay behind six of the world's most popular beverages.

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From Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted author Dominic Streatfeild comes a brilliantly original and stunningly readable work of investigative history which paints an revealing picture of the world since the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Essential reading for fans of Naiomi Klein and Michael Moore.

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A history of the university grounds, their design, management and landscape evolution. It is also a reminder of the very rich educational resource the grounds can offer in botany, ecology, landscape design and social history. It includes sections on areas of special interest such as the Sunken Garden, Somerville Auditorium and Japanese Garden.

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The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

The truth about the sacrifice and suffering on the home front during World War I is rarely discussed. This book presents interviews from eyewitnesses, describing rural famine, bereavement and the effects on families back home, as well as personal stories of Zeppelin raids and munitions work.

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As seen on Channel 4, this is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi occupied Europe and the Allied servicemen and men and women of the Resistance who all risked their lives for freedom.

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This is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi occupied Europe and the Allied servicemen and men and women of the Resistance who all risked their lives for freedom.

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A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history

(Hardback, Main)

A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling insight on world history

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Features an eclectic group of brave, ordinary men who came together on the shores of Gallipoli to help pioneer the ANZAC spirit as their legacy. This book allows you to tread in the shadowy footsteps of the soldiers through each painstaking battle for ground, encompassing everything from minor skirmishes to major encounters.

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A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show us how being more open might end the loneliness epidemic, solve the migrant crisis and change the world.

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Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

This exhilarating single-volume history of the whole world from the Iron Age to the Information Age, by one of Latin America's greatest living writers, gives a voice back to the voiceless, and lets the demonized, the starved and the discarded speak their History.

Third in new series of introductory books covering key facts of popular topics.

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From the bestselling author. Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world
From the French Revolution to today. How far we have come! How far we - and men too- have yet to go. Exhilarating and inspiring for readers of all ages.