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Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 ...
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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.
'A classic ...
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a tough
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A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines
"A fitting tribute to the hundreds of ...
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In 2014, Joko Widodo - popularly known as Jokowi - was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year ...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED
'Remarkable' - Robert Macfarlane
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'Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir ...
The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men ...
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and ...