Books a living history

Books: A Living History

For more than 2,500 years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to document, to educate and to entertain. This book explores the rich his

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Secret History

Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...

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Lowestoft: Within Living Memory

Lowestoft Within Living Memory is a fresh new look at the town’s relatively recent history. In a place once famed for its fishing fleet, shipbuil

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History of Britain Through Books

A journey through Britain told through seminal books of the twentieth century, from A Room of One's Own to Heart of Darkness. These books explore the

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Beginners' Guide to Living on the Waterways

Living Aboard is a must-have guide for anyone wishing to get onto the water including canals, as well as those already living there!

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Books That Changed History - kolektiv

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact.

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Reel History

A fun and illuminating look at cinema's mistreatment of history, based on the Guardian newspaper column 'Reel History' by acclaimed historian Alex von

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Potential History

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share.

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History Thieves

A revelatory book exposing the culture of concealment at the heart of the British government, from the award-winning author of Cruel Britannia.

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The Secret History - Donna Tartt

<p>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement ­­- both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.­­­­­­­______________________________________'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up...

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History of Living Forever

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the Elixir of Life.

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Africa: A Modern History

A revised and updated edition of this magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.

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Zombies: A Cultural History

Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, gives a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this

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History of a Suicide

A lyrical and compassionate analysis of a family, of loss, and of love.

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Queer: A Graphic History

Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.

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NEOGEO: A VISUAL HISTORY

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Living Tradition

Whether a historic country home, public building, or masterwork of urban design, Hugh Petter's designs reveal a loving attention to detail and materia

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Living Mountain

A masterpiece of Scottish nature writing by Nan Shepherd, now introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

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Calm Living

Designing Your Life meets The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up in this guide to creating a space that promotes calm, clarity, and positivity.

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Living Mountain

A beautiful, collectable gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette

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Living Lines

A practical and inspiring book for Steiner-Waldorf teachers, offering new ways to teach form drawing. Includes over 100 form drawing exercises for Cla

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Secret History

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of th

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Secret History

Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the general Be

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Natural History

A work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a view of th

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Zero History

Former hit singer Hollis is down on her luck after the Crash and can't turn down the offer of a job again from mysterious global ad agency, Blue Ant.

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Jihad: A Short History

Wit and history seldom go together. In Jihad: A short history they are inseparable.

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Cotswolds: A Cultural History

Looking beyond the image of a picture-perfect rural idyll, the author reveals a complicated history of the Cotswolds

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Europe - A History - Norman Davies

<p>From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken.</p>

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Scotland: History of a Nation

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Thin Lizzy - A People's History

The story of Thin Lizzy as told in the words of over 350 fans

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Brief History of Thought

The international bestseller; a smart, accessible history of philosophy to inspire readers, young and old

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People's History of London

The global city of revolutionaries and radicals in exile, in a new history-from-below.

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History of Language

A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguisti

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History of Diplomacy

In A History of Diplomacy Black shows how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering developed through increasing globalization into a

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Short History Of Progress

Inspiring a documentary featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall, A Short History of Progress examines the downside of human advanc

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Short History Of Myth

A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God

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Secret History of Here

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways

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Secret History of Here

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways

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History of Kansas City

Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is SurroundedWith much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather t...

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Dare to Make History

The Lamoureux twins—Olympic gold medalists on the historic 2018 US women’s ice hockey team—tell their story of grit and determination,

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History Of The Blues

In honor of the Year of the Blues, the long-awaited reissue of a myth-shattering examination of a most enduring form of American music

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History of My Sexuality

A sensation in Europe on publication: an effervescent account of life as a twenty-something in Amsterdam that charts the freedoms and complications of

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Rats, Lice and History

From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy’s fashion for wearing wig

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History of Violence

This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world

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Stranger to History

The story of a son's journey across the middle east to meet his estranged father - from an acclaimed young journalist

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Hidden History of Burma

A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy.

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Tall History of Sugar

A vivid epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England

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Tall History of Sugar

A vivid epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England

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History of Forgetting

Examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in Los Angeles, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and looks at the way information technology has re

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Little History of Dragons

Why are dragons recognised in almost all cultures on Earth? Could dragons be a folk memory of something which once hunted us long ago? This book tells

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Hoard and its History

No satisfactory explanation was given for the burial of a large Saxon gold hoard found in Staffordshire. Speculation on who buried the treasure has le

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History of Surfing

Matt Warshaw knows more about surfing that any other person on the planet. After five years of research and writing, Warshaw has completed a totally u

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History of Western Thought

A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present

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History of Rome, Books 1-5

Features Valerie Warrior's translation of the first five books of Livy's History; a general introduction to Livy and his work; foot-of-the-page notes

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Natural History, Volume VI: Books 20–23

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the univers

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Natural History, Volume I: Books 1–2

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the univers

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Natural History, Volume VIII: Books 28–32

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the univers

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Natural History, Volume IV: Books 12–16

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the univers

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Living With a Wild God

One of the finest thinkers of our time grapples with fundamental, deeply personal, questions of belief

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Cheerfulness – A Literary and Cultural History

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