Life Lessons from Historical Women by Eleanor Morton
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Category: World
Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. In Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton celebrates the ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday lives resonate with us today.Taking inspiration fr ...Show more
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
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Category: World
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war'- the vast conflict in Easter ...Show more
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
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Category: World
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that ...Show more
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany (1918 - 1933) by Harald Jahner / Harald Jähner
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Category: World
Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald Jähner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the wars in Germany. Germany, 1918- a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to ...Show more
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney
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Category: World
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object- the coin. When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, its permanence, and its unique power to connect us with the ...Show more
The Awakening - A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman
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Category: World
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservatio ...Show more
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome's Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
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Category: World
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer. The tales they told about her - including a twenty-four- ...Show more
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
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Category: World
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. 'Alluring, gripping, real: an astonishing insight into the lives of three queens' ALICE ROBERTS 'Takes us into the hearts an ...Show more
Colonialism - A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
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Category: World
The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West's colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
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Category: World
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
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Category: World
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to ...Show more
The Jerusalem Files - The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island by Corjan Mol; Christopher Morford
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Category: World
A non-fiction Da Vinci Code for the 21st century, this thrilling treasure hunt traces the voyage of the legendary Jewish Menorah from the Jerusalem of the Knights Templar through France, Portugal and North America, providing mind-blowing history and mystery for fans of The Curse of Oak Island. The Jewi ...Show more