Our kind of historian

Our Kind of Historian

Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and c

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Our Kind of Traitor

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean isl

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Our Kind of Traitor

An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.

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OUR KIND OF CRUELTY

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Our Kind Of People

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Last of Our Kind

An impossible love story at a time when everything was possible.

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Our Kind of Cruelty

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Last of Our Kind

An impossible love story at a time when everything was possible.

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Our Kind of Traitor

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Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carré

Anotace: In John le Carré`s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire c...

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Right Kind of Confident

What if we stopped placing our confidence in the things of this world---and instead put our trust in the only one who is truly trustworthy?

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Plays of Our Own

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made

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Our Fathers

What kind of man kills his own family? A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sons

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Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men

The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.

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Our Emotions and Behaviour: I Don't Want to Play Nicely: A book about being kind

A series that introduces young children to different emotions and aspects of behaviour, through a fictional story appropriate for the age group.

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Bob Ross: Our Happy Little Friendship

Celebrate your closest friends with this fill-in book inspired by the world of Bob Ross. It's a one-of-a-kind new addition to Running Press's hugely s

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First Questions and Answers: How Can I Be Kind - Katie Daynes

<p>This thoughtful book explores how to be kind and why kindness is so important. A range of questions help children and their grown-ups to think, and talk, about being kind to others and ourselves, as well as nature and our planet. Beautiful illustrations by Christine Pym help young children to understand big concepts by setting them in a world of friendly bugs. Pl...

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Meat Makes People Powerful

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat - more than any other food - has had an enormous impact on our environment. Labour historian

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Dating - School of Life Press The

<p>Dating might seem a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can last and help us flourish. The process we call dating sits on top of some of the largest themes of love: how to know whether or not someone is right for us; how soon to settle and how long to search; how to be at once ho...

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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners - School of Life Press The

<p>Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party's names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host's ...

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Regimes of Historicity

A classical historian confronts our crises of time, radically calling into question our relations to the past, present, and future.

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Scars of Eden, The

How do we distinguish between our ancestors' ideas of God and close encounters of an extra-terrestrial kind?

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Story of Pain

The story of pain and suffering since the eighteenth century. Prize-winning historian Joanna Bourke charts how our understanding of pain (and how to c

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History of British Baking

The first of it's kind, this is a complete history of Britain's love affair with baking. Tells the story of how our relationship with this much-loved

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Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

This dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and

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The Beauty of Everyday Things - Soetsu Yanagi

"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal <p>The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with ca...

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Five Side Effects of Kindness

In The Five Side Effects of Kindness, David Hamilton shows that the effects of kindness are felt daily throughout our nervous system. When we're kind

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In Search of Common Ground

As heard on NPR's This American Life: Unlikely friendships challenge every kind of bias, to offer hope that our societies can heal.

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Rise and Reign of the Mammals

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest developmen

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Rise and Reign of the Mammals

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest developmen

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Notes on the Death of Culture

'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital conscious

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Empire Of Things - Trentmann Frank

Anotace: Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing` Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented...

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Empire Of Things - Frank Trentmann

<p>Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented ...

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The Secret Lives of Numbers - Kate Kitagawa

<p>A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa...

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The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.</p> <p>At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud published a controversial and groundbreaking theory. Our dreams, he proposed, are as complex and mult...

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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley

<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...

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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners - The School of Life Press

Anotace: Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party`s names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host`s...

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee

<p>The Song of the Cell is the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life. It describes how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Both panoramic and intimate, it is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, R...

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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

Now updated: the definitive neuroscience resource from Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD § 900 full-color illustrations§Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior has always been one of the most intriguing and often challenging aspect...

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Halo Effect: Days Of The Lost - CD (4065629602925)

Hudební CD - The Halo Effect je švédská melodická death metalová kapela tvořená bývalými členy In Flames. Jsou podepsáni pod značkou Nuclear Blast. The Halo Effect je švédská melodická death metalová kapela tvořená bývalými členy In Flames. Jsou podepsáni pod značkou Nuclear Blast. Album z roku 2022 Seznam stop Shadowminds / Days of the Lost / The Needless End / Condit...

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The Book of Symbols - autorů kolektiv

<p>This encyclopedia explores the hidden meanings of visual symbols across time and geography, from the sun to whales and the human hand. Spanning different eras and cultures, over 800 beautiful images combine with expert illuminations of symbol history, meanings, and psychic associations, offering readers a precious and fascinating resource for thoughtful interpret...

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Femina : A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It - Janina Ramirezová

<p>An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written out of our history. From royalty and religion to fame and fury, see the medieval world - and the women erased from it - with fresh eyes.</p> The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings,...

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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker´s History of Time. ´An exquisite book´ - STEPHEN FRY - Struthers Rebecca

Anotace: `5/5 A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.` TELEGRAPH`A rattling, wonderful read.` OBSERVER`Every page glitters` SPECTATOR`Mesmerising` NEW STATESMAN`An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.` STEPHEN FRY `Absolutely gorgeous. It blew my socks off` JAY BLADES`An intensely personal, finely-tuned medi...

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Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia - Michaela Janečková

<p>The publication is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the building of a nationwide network of cultural houses, which were systematically established during the socialist period in the former Czechoslovakia. As places of public life in post-war society, these buildings enjoyed generous state support, not only economically but also politically and...

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Schama Simon

Anotace: A new and vibrant cultural history, investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama. With the devastating effects of Covid-19 still rattling the foundations of our global civilization, we live in unprecedented times - or so we might think. But pandemics have been a constant presence thro...

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Lonely Planet Best Beaches: 100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches Lonely Planet Global Limited

Discover 100 of the world's most magnificent beaches in this exquisite coffee table book featuring spectacular photography, tips on how to reach each paradise, and reasons why Lonely Planet selected these as the 100 best. Perfect for inspiring a one-of-a-kind beach adventure, this is the ultimate collection of our planet's extraordinary shorelines....

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The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People - Stuart Maconie

<p>A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of country is England today? What does it mean to be English? Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties? ...

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A World Without Email : Reimagining Work in the Age of Overload - Cal Newport

<p>Emails are an integral part of work today. But the 'kind regards', forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us unproductive, stressed and costing businesses millions in untapped potential. Bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport, is here to offer a radical new vision - a world without email. Drawing on sociology,...

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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine - David Petraeus

<p>'A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ... ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED' DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweepin...

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The West: A New History of an Old Idea, 1. vydání - Sweeney Naoise Mac

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...

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The West: A New History of an Old Idea - Mac Sweeney Naoise

Anotace: *A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*`A fantastic achievement` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent` Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...

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Borderlines: A History of Europe, told from the edges - Lewis Baston

<p>An illuminating history of twenty-nine key borderlines that demarcate Europe, and what they can tell us about the past, present and future of Europe.'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' Anthony SeldonEurope's internal borders have rare...

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Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia - Michaela Janečková,Irena Lehkoživová

Anotace: The publication is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the building of a nationwide network of cultural houses, which were systematically established during the socialist period in the former Czechoslovakia. As places of public life in post-war society, these buildings enjoyed generous state support, not only economically but also politically an...

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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name - Muraresku Brian C.

Anotace: The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since th...

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Spirou a Fantasio 7 - The Rhinoceros Horn

A trip to Africa turns into an unusual kind of safari for our reporter friends.

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Second World War

A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George

Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders

<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...

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50 Women in Sport

With an overview of the history of women in sport, by Sport Historian Professor Jean Williams, this book celebrates our female sports pioneers and leg

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On Savage Shores

A landmark work by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by exploring how the gre

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