Goddesses and Heroines: Meet More Than 80 Legendary Women From Around the World by Jean Menzies; Katie Ponder (Illustrator)
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Category: World
Discover the stories of goddesses and other powerful women shared throughout the ages in this beautifully illustrated compendium for children.With profiles of over 80 goddesses, heroines, and legendary women featured, this is a must-have introduction to the key female figures from cultures all over the ...Show more
God: an Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Category: World
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2022'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' - Sunday Times'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators working today' - Dan SnowThree thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon o ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
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Category: World
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
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Category: World
An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society - visualised through the world of dataHumans create data with nearly everything we do. This world of information is invisible, but it shapes society in profound ways. In Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning geographer-designer team Jame ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: World
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Space: The Human Story by Tim Peake
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Category: World
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a ...Show more
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
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Category: World
'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'Will Hutton'Fast-paced and impassioned'Sunday TelegraphWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.There is a comforting illusio ...Show more
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady
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Category: World
An essential new history of Central Europe that "deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past" (Wall Street Journal) Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive hi ...Show more
Revolutionary Spring - Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
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Category: World
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unkn ...Show more
Lebanon Days by Theodore Ell
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Category: World
A captivating memoir that unravels the emotional struggles of a nation the world has long overlooked. Through the eyes of an outsider, this story takes a deep dive into the intimate details of Lebanon's hardships, providing a profound understanding of its people and their journey. 'An astonishing piec ...Show more
Terra Nova: Ambition, Jealousy and Simmering Rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Harrison Christian
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Category: World
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The app ...Show more
The U. S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings by Editors of Canterbury Classics
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Category: World | Series: Crafted Classics Ser.
A collection of essential documents from American history, now with a creatively embroidered cover. The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings is a collection of the crucial documents that established the United States. In addition to the Constitution, readers can study supplementary texts s ...Show more