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An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.

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An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.

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Names have much to tell us about our past, our beliefs - even our personality traits. With 150 plus entries, this book takes a look at over 5,000 examples, ranging from the familiar to the comparatively obscure, drawn from different parts of the English-speaking world.

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An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table.

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The seventh book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, volume two of two on the history of the Royal College of Physicians.

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From the tapas bars of Halifax to the caravan parks of Berwick Upon Tweed, from a Westhoughton bowling green to Manchesters curry mile, via dog tracks and art galleries, dance floors and high fells, Stuart compares the new and old North, with some surprising results.

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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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The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero.

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The story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.

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A new history of Hodder & Stoughton, published to celebrate the publisher's 150th birthday.

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*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*

'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph

A toy train.

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This engaging and insightful history of the Qing dynasty (16361912) offers a systematic discussion of topics such as language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs. Nuanced and wide-ranging, noted historian Richard J. Smiths authoritative book provides an essential introduction to late imperial Chinese culture and society.

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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our world, in ways both universal and unique. Along with eight original essays, it's a celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that altered the way we experience our environment.

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The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.

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As they made their mark on their host culture, the formidable memsahib - or English housewife - made sure that much traditional cuisine was rejected in favour of an impossible combination of European customs, and the results were frequently chaotic.

Anglo-India cooking was at its best when it achieved a kind of cultural balance;

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Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic processes of economic, cultural and social change decisively shaping the international war effort, the unravelling of the empire and Indias own political trajectory.

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A book about a terrible photograph an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine, 1941. By concentrating carefully on a single image the larger horror of the genocide is brought into sharp focus.

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Colin MacFarlane was born in Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of "No Mean City", the novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's deprived district. The author witnessed the last days of old Gorbals as street boy as a regeneration programme was implemented. He reveals what it was really like to live in old Gorbals.

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Japan: The "other", lesser-known 1968

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All That Matters about the Renaissance. All That Matters books are a fast way to get right to the heart of key issues.