Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
The Celts - A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
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Category: History
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, GuardianWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of h ...Show more
The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams
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Category: Social Issues
‘The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.’ Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you’ve wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? ...Show more
The Hitler Bloodline - Uncovering the Fuhrers Descendants by David Gardner
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Category: History
The astounding story of the quest to find the living descendants of the most monstrous tyrant in history - Adolf Hitler
The Perennials: Unleashing the Power of our Postigenerational Society by Mauro Guillen
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Category: Social Issues
For the first time ever, eight generations live side by side - this groundbreaking new book reveals what we must chaneg and how to all benefit from our multigenerational society. For the first time in history, eight defined generations live side by side with each other, from Alphas to the Greatest Gene ...Show more
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols by Sarah Bartlett
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols is an illustrated reference to 100 ancient and diverse symbols that are said to hold the answers to the universe.
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
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Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom
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Category: History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
"Urgent and moving."--Publishers Weekly ★An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy ...Show more
A City Runs Through Them - Dublin and Its Twenty River Bridges by Fergal Tobin
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Category: History
An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges. Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development ove ...Show more
A Death in the Rainforest - How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick
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Category: History
'Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.' --The Wall Street Journal 'If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excelle ...Show more
A History of Scotland by Neil Oliver
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Category: History
The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted ambition and tragedy - often badly se ...Show more
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
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Category: History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more