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  • OPERATION MINCEMEAT
    MCINTYRE, BEN
    **Soon to be a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONA SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' New York...
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    16,93 €

  • SAPIENS. A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
    HARARI YUVAL NOAH
    **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old.In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others ha...
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    17,15 €

  • ATLAS OF IMPROBABLE PLACES : A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL CORNERS
    ELBOROUGH, TRAVIS
    'Atlas of Improbable Places has that rare, through-the-wardrobe quality. It is a delightful compendium of the strangest places on the planet.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 2020 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR Atlas of Vanishing Places. In Atlas of Improbable Places, Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and arca...
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    14,50 €

  • ROARING GIRLS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES OF HISTORY'S UNSUNG HEROINES
    KYTE, HOLLY
    'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules. Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and r...
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    16,98 €

  • SPAIN: THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF A MODERN EUROPEA
    REID, MICHAEL
    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond “Comprehensive and engaging.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus ha...
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    17,75 €

  • ESPAÑA: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN
    TREMLETT, GILES
    Image for Espana: a Brief History of SpainClick to enlargeEspana: a Brief History of Spainby Giles Tremlett (Author)Format:Paperback / softback 304 pages, 1 x 16pp colPublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint:ApolloISBN:9781789544381Published:2 Feb 2023Classifications:European history, History: earliest times to present day, Travel writingReadership:General (US: Trade)Weight:2...
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    18,50 €

  • QUEEN OF THE SEA: A HISTORY OF LISBON
    HATTON, BARRY
    Lisbon’s charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing—in 1755 the city was devastated by the largest earthquake ever to strike modern Europe, followed by a catastrophic tsunami and a six-day inferno that turned ...
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    23,30 €

  • MADRID: A NEW BIOGRAPHY
    STEGEMANN, LUKE
    The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid’s fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre o...
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    19,50 €

  • THE PORTUGUESE
    HATTON, BARRY
    An intimate portrait of this fascinating country, capturing its contradictions and charms. Though a founding member of NATO and the euro, Portugal is often overlooked, a small country on Europe’s southwestern edge. In The Portuguese, veteran journalist Barry Hatton blends historical insight with personal anecdotes to explore this enigmatic nation.During the 1400s and 1500s, Por...
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    19,90 €

  • IN SPITE OF THE GODS
    LUCE, EDWARD
    India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be...
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    15,40 €

  • GHOSTS OF SPAIN
    TREMLETT, GILES
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    17,25 €

  • SECRETS OF THE CODE
    BURSTEIN, D
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    14,90 €

  • OXFORD COMPANION TO SCOTTISH HISTORY
    LYNCH, M
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    31,20 €

  • MYTHOS
    FRY, STEPHEN
    STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MYTHOS'A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best . .. the gods will be pleased' Times___________No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's v...
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    15,48 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF ART
    MULLINS, CHARLOTTE
    A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today Art can help us see the world differently or understand our place in it a little more clearly. It can move us emotionally, even if sometimes we cannot explain why. It is powerful stuff. Roaming from Japan and India to South America and the Middle East, Ch...
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    16,50 €

  • THE REST IS HISTORY RETURNS
    SANDBROOK, DOMINIC
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) - also including puzzles and a quiz!Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history’s best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through...
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    16,50 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
    LAWRENCE, SNEZANA
    A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics—all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understand the world around them? Where do numbers even come from? I...
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    24,75 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF MUSIC
    PHILIP, ROBERT
    A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal’s bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have always made and enjoyed music. Covering a remarkable range, including Indian raga, Javanese gamelan, medieval chant, jazz and K-po...
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    16,50 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF RELIGION
    HOLLOWAY, RICHARD
    A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times Religion is distinctly human. We can’t help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die, is there anything else to come? And what will it be like? Questions like these have occupied human minds across the ages.In our sea...
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    16,50 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
    KISHTAINY, NIALL
    An accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers Economics explains the world. For example, the fact that you’re holding this book in your hands puts you in a special position. To many people around the globe, spending money on a book and being able to read it would seem as likely as a trip to the moon.But why can some countries afford the b...
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    16,50 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    WARBURTON, NIGEL
    A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them just how little they genuinely understood. This engaging Litt...
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    16,50 €

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
    SUTHERLAND, JOHN
    A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on the entire glorious span of human literary activity, here guides readers on a journey ‘through the looking glass’ to show how literature from acros...
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    16,50 €

  • HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST CA. 3000 - 323 BC
    VAN DE MIEROOP,MARC
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    68,35 €

  • EMPIREWORLD
    SANGHERA, SATHNAM
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' Peter Frankopan'An absolute masterpiece' James O'Brien'Deeply poignant .. . riveting .. . brave, painful, urgent and timely' Jerry ...
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    21,25 €

  • SPACE : A THRILLING HUMAN HISTORY
    PEAKE,TIM
    From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation. 'This book is brilliant - once in a blue moon.A book for the whole family.' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio'The most wonderful book ... Tim Peake is a historian and encyclopaedia of space....
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    34,10 €

  • NORMAL WOMEN
    GREGORY, PHILIPPA
    A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'Radically reframes our national story' OBSERVER'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'Normal Women is Gregory's finest moment' GLAMOUR UKFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORKDid you know that there ...
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    18,25 €

  • PERSONALITY AND POWER
    KERSHAW,IAN
    One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies wer...
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    21,25 €

  • COFFEE WITH HITLER
    SPICER,CHARLES
    TELEGRAPH and SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARHow the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'. Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding and poignant story, for the first time, of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from ...
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    15,75 €

  • AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY, FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME
    UNIVERSAL HISTORY
    From the dawn of civilization to the present day, this comprehensive history provides a detailed look at the world's major events and pivotal moments. Written by some of the leading thinkers of the 19th century, this book remains an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the rise of human civilization.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally imp...
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    49,10 €

  • AMERICA REDUX
    ABERG RIGER, ARIEL
    A YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Nonfiction * 4 starred reviews * Kirkus Prize Winner * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * Center for the Study of Multicultural Childrens Literature Best Book of the YearAmerica Redux is THE history book that bel...
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    38,73 €


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