The invention of yesterday

The Invention of Yesterday

A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilisations and cultural movements and the dramatic, som

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Invention

The definitive autobiography of James Dyson, the UK's most successful businessman, revealing the secrets of his success and the inspiration behind his

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Seed-Babies, Illustrated Edition (Yesterday's Classics)

Share the excitement of three little children as they discover how beans grow from seeds, then start to wonder how other plants get their start, which leads them to watch closely for new life springing up all around them. Numerous black and white drawings

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Yesterday

A brilliant high-concept thriller - a debut with all the intrigue of Gone Girl and the drama of Before I Go To Sleep - just how do you solve a murder

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Burgess Animal Book for Children

To answer Peter Rabbit's questions about his relatives, Old Mother Nature holds a school for the animals every day at sun-up for a month. Encouraging the animals to notice the differences between them and to offer their observations of animal behavior, Old Mother Nature helps them all gain a greater understanding of the mammals of North America. Starting with the animals ...

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Invention of World Religions

Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Ch

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Invention of Art

Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understanding of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is

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Invention of Heterosexuality

"Heterosexuality" is assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm. This work challenges the common notion that the distinction between heter

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Invention of Culture

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No Repeat of Yesterday

A dystopian novel

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The Invention of Power

In the tradition of Sapiens and Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civi

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The Invention of Power

In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in

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The Invention of Tomorrow

A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future

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Invention of the Television

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the television and explains how a television works. Includes information on some of the inv

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Invention of the Passport

This book presents the definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the

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Invention of the Visible

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition to

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Invention of the Visible

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition to

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Invention of the Restaurant

As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishmen

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Invention of the Telephone

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the telephone and explains how a telephone works. Includes information on Alexander Graham

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THE INVENTION OF WORDS

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Invention of the 'Underclass'

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Invention of the American Desert

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Invention of Judaism

Provides an account of the role of the Torah in ancient Judaism, exploring key moments in its history, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy and

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Policing Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Written by police officers and researche

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Greatest Invention

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention – the art of writing.

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Greatest Invention

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention – the art of writing.

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Pure Invention

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the world

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Yesterday's Words

Yesterday's Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography reflects the main issues of scholarly discussion in the fields of historical lexicogr

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Yesterday's Tomorrows

Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction.

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Yesterday's Man

A deep dive into Joe Biden's history and the origins of his political values.

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Yesterday's Shadows

In Yesterday's Shadows, the Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rosie Goodwin weaves a dramatic and heartrending saga of bitter loss, lost love and bur

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Yesterday Morning

Written with Diana Athill's trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana's childhood, in England in the 1920s, that asks: does privilege equate

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Invention of the Colonial Americas

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revi

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Invention of Marxism

The Invention of Marxism shows how a theory of the capitalist system grew into a political philosophy that shaped the history of the twentieth century

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Invention of the Jewish People

Best-selling analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian with a new preface

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Sanctuaries of Invention

Jennifer Rahim explores the power of the imagination to confront the restrictions of the year of the pandemic through reflections on history and the c

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Invention of the English Landscape

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Invention of the White Race

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Invention of Nature

Before Longitude no one remembered John Harrison. The Invention of Nature does the same for Alexander von Humboldt

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Invention of Wings

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

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Invention of Humboldt

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von H

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Invention of Papal History

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook

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Invention of Angela Carter

Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. By the time of her tragic and untimely de

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Invention of Russia

The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Russia editor. Perfect for readers of Putin's People and N

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Invention of Capitalism

Examines diaries, letters, and the practical writings of the classical economists to show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to

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Invention of Race

This edited collection explores the complex formation and performance of "race" from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. It features

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Invention of Essex

The secret history of England's most notorious county

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Mother of Invention

WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ‘I a

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Invention of Africa

Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist-African and non-African-concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.

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Invention of God

Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, o

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Invention of Sicily

A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean's enigmatic heart

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Yesterday We Were in America

This successful book describes one of the most momentous flights all time, the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1919

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Invention of Tradition

This book addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and

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Invention of Sound

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, an

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Invention of Disaster

This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk re

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Invention of Hugo Cabret

An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreamscome true. But

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World of Yesterday

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividl

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House of Yesterday

A contemporary YA debut, with magical realism elements, about an Afghan-Uzbek girl who confronts the ghosts of her immigrant familyÂ’s past, inspired

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House of Yesterday

A contemporary YA debut, with magical realism elements, about an Afghan-Uzbek girl who confronts the ghosts of her immigrant familyÂ’s past, inspired

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Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

The remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered pa

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