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By: Arturo Giraldez
ISBN: 9780742556638
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Arturo Giraldez provides a rich history of the ships and sailors that launched the global economy. Beginning with the founding of Manila in 1571 and ending in 1815 when the last galleon left Acapulco for the Philippines, these vessels braved weather and pirates to establish a vital connection between the Spanish empire in America with Asia.
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By: Stephen M. Silverman
ISBN: 9780316416481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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The electrifying, never-before-told history of amusement parks, from the middle ages to present day, populated by the colorful (and sometimes criminal) characters who built them, and the regular folks who sought their magical, albeit temporary, charms.
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By: Hafez Ghanem
ISBN: 9780815727187
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides a thorough assessment of the Arab Spring, beginning with political developments since the revolutions and changes in the legal and institutional frameworks that affect economies. Ghanem argues that Arab countries need to adopt new economic policies and programmes that enhance inclusiveness, expand the middle class, and foster growth in undeveloped regions.
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By: Hafez Ghanem
ISBN: 9780815727217
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Volume 1 of The Arab Spring Five Years Later is based on extensive research conducted by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including many associated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Now the original research papers are gathered in volume 2 and are available for readers who wish to go even further in understanding the economic
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By: Marc Lynch
ISBN: 9781610392358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The director of George Washington University's Institute for Middle East Studies recounts how a series of unremarkable protests exploded into the Arab Spring, why a new Cold War between revolution and counter-revolution is brewing, and what side America must take.
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By: Reviel Netz
ISBN: 9780753823729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2008
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost works
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By: Bernard Regan
ISBN: 9781786632487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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A new history of the letter that changed the history of the Middle East
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By: Sally Coulthard
ISBN: 9781800240865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by nature writer Sally Coulthard.
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By: John Roberts
ISBN: 9781472846068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: David Rooney
ISBN: 9781784745080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Kramer
ISBN: 9780851707860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of the Hollywood mainstream addresses the questions which are asked about the world's most profitable film industry. Who are the decision makers Why do they make the films they do and what are the habits of film audiences To provide answers, the book looks at key films from 1977 to 1997.
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By: Juliet Gardiner
ISBN: 9780007386611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population the Blitz.
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By: Joseph Hone
ISBN: 9781784744670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Fort
ISBN: 9780007115938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys The eel.
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By: Brian Copenhaver
ISBN: 9780141393148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Juliet Nicolson
ISBN: 9781784745318
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Adam Smyth
ISBN: 9781847926296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Annie Gray
ISBN: 9781800812246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A people's history of the high street
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By: Simon Smith
ISBN: 9781784424572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fascinating primer on how censuses have been taken in Britain over the last two centuries, and what they can tell us about the ways in which society has evolved.
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By: Roger Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780349141220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker is a witty, insightful and surprising history of modern Britain, narrated through the colourful stories of the men and women who forged the country.
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By: Jean Markale
ISBN: 9780892814138
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1993
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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This comprehensive treatment of Celtic civilization peels back the layers of European history beyond the Greco-Roman influence to reveal the ancient Celtic people who were the real source of our Western social, political, and literary values. Drawing on myth as well as history, Markale's treatment is both original and convincing. Illustrations. (Inner Traditions International)
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By: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781399816847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
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By: Pascal Jacob
ISBN: 9781350043107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A beautiful, highly illustrated and authoritative history of the circus around the world, which charts the evolution of travelling entertainment from antiquity to the present day.
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By: Norman Friedman
ISBN: 9780233005911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Written by a leading American defence analyst, Dr Norman Friedman, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is supplemented with 60 photographs and documents that allow the reader to witness the events as they unfolded.
