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Genius of Britain (Hardcover) by Robert Uhlig

The extraordinary history of British science, with commentary from Britain's greatest living scientists: Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and James Dyson We may only be a small island, but we are far from small-minded. Over the last 500 year...

Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer...

Explores the ways in which records of human experience are collected. This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to...

Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives (Paperback) by Pet...

A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economi...

Arp and Civil Defence in the Second World War (Shire Library) (Pa...

In the late 1930s, when war seemed inevitable and it was realised that aerial attack would be the greatest threat posed by any coming conflict, the government established a volunteer organisation – Air Raid Precautions or ARP – that wou...

A Century of Scandal (Hardcover) by Sally Humphreys

Disgraceful behaviour and broken reputations, immoral actions and salacious stories - a scandal can engulf anybody. A Century of Scandal is a captivating look into the biggest scandals of recent times, providing essential reading for anybody intere...

Post-war British Women Novelists and the Canon (Continuum Literar...

A monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. It argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many wor...

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge Companions to Liter...

Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome’s greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provide...

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge Companions to Liter...

Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses (Hardcover) by David Santiust...

Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet Edward has not achieved the martial reputation of other warrior kings such as Henry V - perhaps because he fought battles against...

Back Bearings: A Navigator's Tale (Hardcover) by Eric Group Capta...

Eric Cropper’s RAF career started in 1943 and ended in 1968. It covered a period when the navigation of aircraft changed from astro, dead reckoning and drift bearings all plotted by pencil on charts, to press-button radio and satellite inform...

Boesinghe (Battleground Europe) (Paperback) by Stephen McGreal

In the aftermath of the War the war-ravaged countryside was restored and the trenches of the Western Front were filled in. 75 years after the War a group of Belgians, known as the Diggers, excavated a classic trench system at Boesinghe, discovering...

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century: 2 (Dumbarton Oaks O...

This fourth and final installment in Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume’s discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. First, Irfan Shahîd focuses on the e...

Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed (Paperback) by Michael K. ...

Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thi...

Swift to Battle: 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action: 1947 to 1961 ...

This third of three volumes traces the history of 72 Fighter Squadron, one of the premier squadrons in the Royal Air Force. The aircraft flown, operational personnel and missions flown are fully described with first-hand accounts from pilots and bo...

The English Civil Wars: 1640 - 1660 (Paperback) by Blair Worden

The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were ...

Operation Mincemeat (Hardcover) by Ben Macintyre

One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the...

Pike's Portage: Stories of a Distinguished Place (Paperback) by M...

Pike's Portage is more than a trail from Great Slave Lake to Artillery Lake at the edge of the Barrens in the Northwest Territories. For years it was used by as an access point by Native Peoples, and as a transition point by intrepid explorer...

Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who...

The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Yet the eco...

The Old Devil: Clarence Darrow: the World's Greatest Trial Lawyer...

Clarence Darrow was one of the most legendary and influential trial lawyers the world has ever seen. Famous for his ability to turn seemingly unwinnable cases his way through his oratory and his uncanny skill at reading the mood of a jury, he was a...

Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society: 350 Y...

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tel...

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