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Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
Aminata Conteh-Biger
'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Quentin...
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$23.50
Rain of Lead: the Siege and Surrender of the British at Potchefstroom
Ian Bennett
First major book about the bitter siege of Potchefstroom. Based on eyewitness reports and contemporary...
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$27.99
Persian Fire
Tom Holland
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its...
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Operation Thunderbolt
Saul David
'Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to...
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No Drums, No Trumpets
Alec Le Vernoy
This is a true story from the Second World War which tells of the adventures...
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Mighty Be Our Powers
Carol Mithers
WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE I n a time of death and terror,...
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$33.00
Mandela
Mike Nicol
This magnificent book will be published throughout the world on 2 October 2006. It will...
$29.50
Lords of the Atlas
Gavin Maxwell
An evocation of the feudal magnificance of the Moroccan Warlord rulers of Marrakesh and the...
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Land
Simon Winchester
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who...
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In an Antique Land
Amitav Ghosh
Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian...
$36.99
Ghost Empire
Richard Fidler
'A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, invasion and decay that is the...
$24.99
Europe
Tim Flannery
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the...
$18.50
Discovery of the Source of the Nile
John Hanning Speke
The series, devoted to "Adventure Classics", features best selling travel literature, the famous books that...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Colin Freeman
'A thoroughly good read' - Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and...
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Air War in East Africa 1940 - 41
Jon Sutherland
This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by...
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A Brief History of the Mediterranean
Jeremy Black
A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion...
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1914: The Year the World Ended
Paul Ham
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years...
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The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War
John Laband
This guide describes and explains the origins of the conflict, the Zulu, British and colonial...
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Mythology
Edith Hamilton
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing...
$32.95
Women's Work
Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Occidental College)
Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In...
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Enchanted Creatures
Natalie Lawrence
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The...
$51.95
The Story of Nature
Jeremy Mynott
The story of humanity's evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present...
$49.99
Red
Jacky Colliss Harvey
The mere mention of red hair or red-headedness conjures vivid associations. Stereotypes range from the...
$39.99
The Martyr and the Red Kimono
Naoko Abe
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two...
$24.95
Selected Discourses - The Wisdom of Epictetus
Epictetus
Explore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary...
$24.95
On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New...