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  • The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by

    Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

    Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

    The Cold War was not just a contest of ...

    1 in stock - ships Wed 06th!
  • The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by

    In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world ...

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    Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects by

    "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose ...

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  • When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by

    When Death Becomes Life is a thrilling look at how science advances on a grand scale to improve human lives. Mezrich examines more than one ...

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  • Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower1945-1957 by

    A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American ...

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  • The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by

    A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS

    'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr

    'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan Ross ...

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  • Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by

    How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer.

    Revolutions, droughts ...

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  • A Very Short History of the World by

    An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and ...

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  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by

    Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ...

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    Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary by &

    Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War ...

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  • The Cold War by

    The first truly commercial one-volume history of the Cold War

    In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in ...

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  • Behold a Pale Horse by

    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in ...

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  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by

    'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island ...

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