No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to…

Do you want to be more persuasive? Do you want to enthuse and inpsire and feel good whenever you present or speak in public?…

Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that…

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it…

Features over 100 delicious recipes that help achieve and maintain optimum health. This book offers some amazing ideas on…

The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture, and death…

Explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new…

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Offers a collection of quick and delicious puddings made with simple and fresh ingredients. This title also includes ideas…

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of…

Seventh edition with entries on over 1,200 painters, periods, ideas and movements, and information about galleries that…

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The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia,…

Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of the life and art of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins. This book…

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Presents the history of the Indian uprising of 1857.…

In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of Mediterranean - before the…

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Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released…

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Autor : Tim Blanning, Popis : A historical biography in the tradition of Andrew Roberts' "Napoleon The Great" or Simon Sebag…

A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringNow part of the Russian Baltic…

Taking readers back through the ages, the Guerrilla Girls demonstrate how males have dominated the art scene, and…

The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and…

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Meticulously researched and wonderfully vivid, this is the first biography of the infamous murderess for over sixty years.…

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'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the…

Introducing the streets of London, this title traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and…

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In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a…

Niall Ferguson's "The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred" re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a…

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The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's…

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A stunning new colouring book that will take you through a year in the life of the English countryside. Nearly 40 years ago,…

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity.…

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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the…

Learn how to figure out what you really want from work with this practical toolkit and find your dream job in five steps Get…

This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with a…

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From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, a…

"The Prosperity Bible" is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every…

Ross Kemp, whose dad was a copper and taught him right from wrong, decided to infiltrate these secret underworld…

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Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles' death in 1558, the…

Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama…

Richard J. Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany" explores…

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about…

The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia…

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The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has…

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