John Sutherland
A title that takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Canterbury Tales to Harry Potter. With mas ...
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Ben Judah
A lively, inside account of Putin's years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime "A beautifully written and very lively study ...
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William Bynum
A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages ...
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Daniel Siemens
The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to th ...
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Wojciech Materski
The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, a ...
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Nigel Warburton
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. This book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores ...
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Dan Healey
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustic ...
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James C. Scott
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did ...
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almo ...
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Margarita Tupitsyn
A comprehensive survey of art in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union that champions the unquenchable spirit of artistic experimentation in the face of politic ...
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Geoffrey Roberts
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."-Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In ...
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David Crystal
Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearin ...
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Philip Snow
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most ...
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John R. Ehrenfeld
The developed world, increasingly aware of 'inconvenient truths' about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies - eco-ef ...
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Trita Parsi
In this era of superheated rhetoric and vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel, the threat of nuclear violence looms. This book traces the s ...
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Oliver Kamm
Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, o ...
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the ...
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Peter Watson
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during th ...
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Adam Rutherford
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart from other animals? Humans are the slighte ...
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Adam Rutherford
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who h ...
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Robert Cooper
Diplomacy in the West from Richelieu to Kissinger: the great diplomats of history and what their achievements tell us about the most important issues of our tim ...
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Matthew Wizinsky
How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. The designed th ...
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