Napoleonic Wars In Cartoons (History) by BRYANT MARK
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Power - Platon by Platon & David Remick
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From one of the world's most exciting new photographers and the editor of world-renowned New Yorker magazine, Power is an extraordinary portrait of political power at the highest level. Especially commissioned by the New Yorker magazine, Platon has photographed over 100 members of the United Nations. Pr ...Show more
Prime Movers: The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi by Ferdinand Mount
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Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millenniaIn this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people, from the ...Show more
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
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Category: History SPECIALS | Reading Level: near fine
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unl ...Show more
Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
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From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption. In a series of beachcombing and mudlarki ...Show more
SORDID SEX LIVES by Nigel Cawthorne
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Sordid Sex Lives features 45 profiles of history's most shocking sexual deviants, fetishists and perverts, revealing the sex secrets of some of history's greatest figures: from the sexual excesses of the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero to the masochist tendencies, coprophilia and underwear fetishes of ...Show more
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
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'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Last Hundred Years of British History by Tessa Dunlop
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A celebration of the one-hundred years since British women got the vote, told, in their own voices, by six centenarians: Helena, Olive, Edna, Joyce, Ann and Phyllis - The Century Girlsâ In 2018 Britain will celebrate the centenary of women getting the vote; during the intervening ten decades the lives ...Show more
The Duchess Countess Elizabeth Chudleigh by Catherine Ostler
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'Outrageously scandalous, soaked in sex and money, aristocracy, adventure and grandeur... Catherine Ostler, accomplished storyteller, is the perfect writer to restore the Duchess Countess to life.' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Fascinating. Magnificient. Sensitively told.' Hallie Rubenfold When the glamorous ...Show more
The Florentines from Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
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A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and arch ...Show more
The Golden Maze - A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
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ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution br ...Show more