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An exploration of both the reality and the spectre of waste throughout history.

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An immersive, beautifully illustrated journey through medieval manuscript production.

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Why did the Mexican Revolution happen What makes it distinctive Was it even a revolution at all

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This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.

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A rollicking account of pirates codes, the strict rules essential for survival at sea.

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A collection of interviews with the worlds leading public intellectual from the time of the rise of Donald Trump to power to the end of his presidency.

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Scots have been invisible ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. This title offers a comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants including convicts and free settlers and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to this day.

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The Scottish family tree detective is a practical, user- friendly guide to research in family history - in locating the ancestors and exploring their background. Its aim is to provide sign-posts to the past and to solve problems. -- .

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This title looks at the ways people interact because of the sea, navigate their course across it, and live on and around it. The book also considers the characteristics of different seas and oceans and investigates how the sea is conceptualized in cultures around the world.

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This guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname.

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A captivating account of the central role women played in the Russian Revolution.

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Introducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.

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A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers' political power.

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Brings together the stories of heroic, groundbreaking and everyday enterprises in transport in shipping, roads, rail and aviation across Australia. This is the fascinating story of how transport in Australia has developed, and how it has impacted our lives.

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This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. Drawing on the unique collection in the Bodleian Library, these stunning maps range from single cities to the solar system, span the thirteenth to the twenty-first century and cover most of the world.

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The first history of the misunderstood festival Halloween, and its current global popularity.

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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'.

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A succinct illustrated account of the University of Oxford's colourful and controversial 800-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid.

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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.

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Ecott escorts readers on a whimsical journey that chronicles the incredible power of one velvety brown, long, and slender bean, which has become endangered in the wild and the world's most labor-intensive agricultural crop.