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(Hardback)
By: Ronald Brownstein
ISBN: 9780062899217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Iain Sinclair
ISBN: 9781862073296
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2000
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2000
Publisher: Granta Books
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Writer Sinclair describes artist Lichtenstein's journey into the past in search of an east European Jew who disappeared in the '60s; his room, left undisturbed in London's East End for 20 years, forms the basis of an art project in June.
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9780099536079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
(Hardback)
By: Rudolfo Anaya
ISBN: 9781598537291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)
By: Rebecca Smith
ISBN: 9780008526276
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A brilliant book about another side of working-class life, not a tower block in sight. Clever and honest, tackling slavery, loss and aspiration with humour and candour. I loved it KIT DE WAAL A wonderful book, beautifully conceived ADAM NICOLSON Thoughtful, moving, honest CAL FLYN
(Hardback)
By: Tony Wood
ISBN: 9781788731249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia
(Paperback)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780007121168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world, this is an astounding tale of courage, arrogance and adventure on the high seas from the author of In the Heart of the Sea.
(Hardback)
By: Karen Dolby
ISBN: 9781789293760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2021
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
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By: Daniel Ellsberg
ISBN: 9780142003428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he risked his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy.
(Hardback)
By: Steven Gillon
ISBN: 9780465096084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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A history of the Kerner Commission, whose revelatory findings on race and urban unrest reshaped American politics and our debates about race and inequality
(Paperback)
By: Lucy Lethbridge
ISBN: 9781408842706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Karen L. Ishizuka
ISBN: 9781781689981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Verso Books
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Frances Larson
ISBN: 9781783780563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Granta Books
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A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the 'civilized West' has had with decapitated heads and skulls.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Foster
ISBN: 9780807050392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780060585440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the dawn of time, power has been an aphrodisiac. The royal mistress, having conquered a king, often ran his kingdom, wielding her sexuality as a sceptre. This book explores the position of royal mistress at European Courts, and the fascinating women who filled it.
(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780063028951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Fern Riddell
ISBN: 9781473666290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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a powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians
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By: Fern Riddell
ISBN: 9781473666252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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a powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians
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By: Karl Jacoby
ISBN: 9780143116219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history.
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By: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472808691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. This guide provides essential information on 40 iconic ships, using detailed profile artwork to illustrate and aid recognition, as well as specification boxes to provide all the technical details.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Somerville
ISBN: 9780857523655
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781848664333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The drama and tragedy behind history's most infamous shipwrecks.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Pamela Cox
ISBN: 9780099594680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Tells true stories of life behind the counter. In this history, we join shopgirl Chili Bouchier on her journey from the small ladies' department at Harrods to star of the silver screen, and experience the raw courage of John Lewis' Miss Austin during the Blitz in the West End.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Andy Letcher
ISBN: 9780571227716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A unique and engaging study of this most extraordinary of psychedelic drugs.
