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Pocket History:Fame and Infamy order quantity
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Author: Ed Wright
Published by: Murdoch Books
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Pocket History:Turning the Tide of order quantity
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Author: Joseph Cummins
Published by: Murdoch Books
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Aphrodite's Island: The European discovery of Tahiti order quantity
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Author: Anne Salmond
Published by: Viking (New Zealand)
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction Category.

Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of these societies' shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the island, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, and collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the ... more

 
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9781741966824

History Makers order quantity
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Author: Ian Whitaker, Jul Whitelaw
Published by: Murdoch Books
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Reveals who the most influential person of the twentieth century was - and why. Counting down from #100 to #1, the entries are rated in order of the level of influence, using a specially devised mathematical formula. People included are: Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali, Coco Chanel, and more.

 
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9781741967289

Pocket History: Good Girls Don't Make History order quantity
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Author: Stradling Jan
Published by: Pier 9 (Australia)
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9781741967272

Pocket History: Obscure Events That Shaped the World order quantity
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Author: Joseph Cummins
Published by: Murdoch Books
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9781741967265

Pocket History:The Clash of History order quantity
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Author: Joseph Cummins
Published by: Murdoch Books
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9781741967302

Pocket History:The War of Words order quantity
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Author: James Inglis
Published by: Murdoch Books
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9780752454795

800 Year's of Women's Letters order quantity
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Author: Olga Kenyon
Published by: Sutton Publishing Ltd
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This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organized by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work and war, to childhood, love and sexual passion, 800 Years of Women's Letters reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages.
Here Heloise writes to Abelard of her undying devotion, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf correspond about life and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that reveal the compassion, humour, love and tenacity with which they confront the often difficult circumstances of everyday life. This is an intriguing insight, and a rare opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language.
'No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a ... more

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9780007228522

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 order quantity
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Author: Charles Glass
Published by: Harper Collins
In Stock: 2
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940.

In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city's four-year occupation. French troops withdrew in order to avoid a battle and the potential destruction of their capital. It wasn't long before German tanks rumbled past the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde.
The American community in Paris was the largest in Continental Europe, totalling approximately 30,000 before the Second World War. Although Ambassodor Bullitt advised those without vital business in the city to leave in 1939, over half of the Americans in Paris chose to stay. Many had professional and family ties to the city; the majority, though, had a peculiarly American love for the city, rooted in the bravery of the Marquis ... more


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9780552997041

A Short History of Nearly Everything order quantity
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Author: Bill Bryson (illustration Neil Gower)
Published by: Black Swan
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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space he encounters a ... more

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9780719569586

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon order quantity
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Author: Craig Nelson
Published by: John Murray
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On 20 July 1969, man set foot on the moon. Motivated by politics, faith, science and wonder, the Apollo 11 mission was the greatest technical achievement of all time. It was the culmination of over a decade's worth of money and effort from more than 400,000 staff and crew. Rocket Men follows the astounding story of the lunar project, beginning at its inception at the start of the Cold War and tracing it through to its finest hour with the first moon landing and the astronauts' safe return. Through extensive interviews with astronauts, NASA staff and their families and never-before published documents, Craig Nelson presents an awe-inspiring human account of the voyage that changed the course of history. He takes us behind the scenes at Mission Control to describe every detail of the mission, from the astronauts' moon excursion suits, which had five hundred parts and weighed no less than fifty pounds, to terrifying revelations, ... more

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9780007197903

Shakespeare : The World As A Stage order quantity
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Author: Bill Bryson
Published by: Harper Collins
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This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author's inimitable wit and intelligence. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard -- from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died. Following his international bestsellers 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' and 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', Bill Bryson has written a short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series -- which seeks to pair great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.

First published 2007.

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9780007240555

Sissinghurst : An Unfinished History order quantity
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Author: Adam Nicolson
Published by: Harpercollins
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A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam ... more

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9781847246066

Speeches That Changed the World : The Words and Stories of the Moments that Made History (Book & CD) order quantity
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Mixed-media pack
Author: Various
Published by: Quercus
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This book includes over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations. Complete with biographies of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a result, this is a fascinating history of the world told through the speeches that shaped it. It provides a unique perspective on the major turning points in history. The accompanying 80-minute CD contains 20 authentic historical recordings of:

Neville Chamberlain 'The peace of Europe'
Winston Churchill 'Blood, toil, tears and sweat'
Winston Churchill 'This was their finest hour'
Winston Churchill 'Never was so much owed by so many to so few'
Franklin D. Roosevelt 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'
Franklin D. Roosevelt 'A date which will live in infamy'
Jawaharlal Nehru 'India will awake to life and freedom'
Douglas MacArthur 'I have just left your fighting sons in Korea'
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9780007149537

The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science order quantity
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Author: Richard Holmes
Published by: Harper Collins
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Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Book.

Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography The Age of Wonder. It is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder. Banks ... more

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9780099520399

The American Future : A history from the founding fathers to Barack Obama order quantity
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Author: Simon Schama
Published by: Vintage Books
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In November 2008, the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began as 'the last best hope for mankind' came to be so suspected and vilified around much of the world. "The American Future: A History", written by an author who has spent half his life there, takes the long view of how the United States has come to this anguished moment of truth about its own identity as a nation and its place in the world. In each of the chapters devoted to the most compelling issues facing Americans now - the projection of power ('American war'); race, immigration and the problematic promise of e pluribus unum ('American skin'); the intensity of religious conviction in public life ('American fervour'); the mystique of ... more

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9780340839829

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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Published by: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers
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When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. In our digitised age of instant information it is easy to underestimate the power of the printed word. In his fascinating new book accompanying the ITV series, Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution.
Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises.
Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare - but we also discover the stories behind some less well-known works, such as Marie Stopes' Married Love, the original ... more

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9780553815221

1421 : The Year China Discovered the World order quantity
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Author: Gavin Menzies
Published by: Bantam Books UK
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On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the entire globe.

When they returned Zhu Di had fallen from power and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They has also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook ... more

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9780007269556

1434 : The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance order quantity
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Author: Gavin Menzies
Published by: Harper Collins
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In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes ... more


 
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