(Paperback)
By: Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780552154659
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.
In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Marjoleine Kars
ISBN: 9781800812284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A breathtakingly original history of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the event that almost changed the face of the Americas.
(Hardback)
By: Tijl Vanneste
ISBN: 9781789144352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry.
(Paperback)
By: Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9780099551799
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.
The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia.
(Paperback)
By: David Sornig
ISBN: 9781925322743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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I'm here already, in the bleak, awful hour on Dudley Flats in which the final dereliction of Elsie Williams will come to pass. I'm beginning with it, so you won't be under any illusion as to how it ends.
(Hardback)
By: Nick Rennison
ISBN: 9781904048305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
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The lost art of louche living! Elborough captures London at its gamiest - controversial characters and outrageous behaviours. Garrets, pubs, clubs, salons, opium dens and brothels. Poets, painters, down-and-ups, drunks, sensualists, crooks and cranks.
(Hardback)
By: Terry Breverton
ISBN: 9781847247766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.
(Paperback)
By: James Chapman
ISBN: 9781789149128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A unique cultural history of British comic papers and magazines.
(Hardback)
By: Mark Jackson
ISBN: 9781789143959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A meticulously researched account of the midlife crisis in both men and women.
(Paperback)
By: Dr. Charles Dick
ISBN: 9781350337053
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: David Grant
ISBN: 9780864733085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Trent Dalton
ISBN: 9781460766606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kristin Otto
ISBN: 9781921520778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Text Publishing
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In 1901, the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next 26 years, was governed from Melbourne. And this overgrown town, in all but name the nation's capital, oversaw the birth of modern Australia. In Capital, Kristin Otto describes how it happened.
(Paperback)
By: Eric Williams
ISBN: 9780241548165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN: 9781760895099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Mundle
ISBN: 9780733335433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)
By: Brendan Cormier
ISBN: 9781851779673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: V & A Publishing
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From the Ford Model T and the legacy of mass production, to the original Volkswagen expression of national identity, this book presents the car as the driving force that accelerated the twentieth century. It takes an in-depth look at the history of the automobile and its impact, to better understand where we might want to go in the future.
(Paperback, New in Paperback)
By: Stuart Cosgrove
ISBN: 9781846975790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Cassius X is the remarkable story of the transformation of Cassius Clay into global icon Muhammad Ali, pivoting on the year that he converted to Islam under the guidance of Malcolm X and prepared for his title fight against ex-convict Sonny Liston.
(Paperback)
By: Kjetil Saeter
ISBN: 9781925322224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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A remarkable true story of courage and perseverance and a wake-up call.
(Hardback)
By: Nicola Crichton-Brown
ISBN: 9781460757420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: David Dufty
ISBN: 9781761471353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.
(Hardback)
By: Leslie B. Jones
ISBN: 9781785512919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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This richly illustrated book explores Cheekwood, a 55-acre destination in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the finest American Country Place Era estates in the nation.
(Paperback)
By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780241270530
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.
(Paperback)
By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780141988351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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