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By: Tilar J Mazzeo
ISBN: 9780061791031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Reverently known among fragrance industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - Chanel Number 5 is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This title uncovers the story of Number 5's creation, iconic status, and extraordinary success.
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By: Catherine Bailey
ISBN: 9780141035673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire.
(Hardback)
By: Meg Clothier
ISBN: 9781785949265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Erik Peterson
ISBN: 9781891011887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2025
Publisher: The Experiment LLC
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A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children-and who was worthy of life.
(Hardback)
By: Preeti Dhillon
ISBN: 9780349702827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The forgotten history of the UK's anti-racist campaigners are finally brought to life in this comprehensive account of modern British history, told through ten moments
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By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780719563034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2008
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780753820568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
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By: Jonathan Lyons
ISBN: 9781608195725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment--think "1776" meets "The Metaphysical Club." Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to AmericaNan intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed.
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By: W.E.B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9781598530544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: The Library of America
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Originally published: Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903.
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By: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9780718188573
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781845951924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Presents the history of the economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory. This book offers the story of the Venice of Marco Polo, Titian, Tintoretto, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Casanova, and an array of equally captivating heroes and villains.
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By: Alasdair Cross
ISBN: 9781472281999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.
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By: Gilbert Seldes
ISBN: 9781590175804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th December 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The Stammering Century is a model of exposition and a straight-out delight to read.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Philip Oltermann
ISBN: 9780571331192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.
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By: Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN: 9780749954154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal system
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By: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9781786498649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
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By: Duncan Barrett
ISBN: 9781471148170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A warm and nostalgic social history of the women who worked at the Tate & Lyle factory on Love Lane in Liverpool
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By: Duncan Barrett
ISBN: 9780007448470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.
(Hardback)
By: Josef Lewkowicz
ISBN: 9781787636293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Kent Alexander
ISBN: 9781529365870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world's attention, and Richard Jewell, the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all.
(Hardback)
By: Karen Valby
ISBN: 9781786582492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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The story of the groundbreaking Dance Theatre of Harlem, established by the first Black principal of the NYC Ballet, Arthur Mitchell, and five Black ballerinas who excelled despite the odds.
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By: Lizzie Collingham
ISBN: 9780141028972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries leads to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.
(Paperback)
By: William Rosen
ISBN: 9780143127147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Peniel E Joseph
ISBN: 9781541600744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstruction
