Untold history of the potato

Untold History of the Potato

The story of one of the world's most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grow

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Untold London

If the streets and buildings of central London could talk, what stories would they tell? Quirky and intriguing stories from history revealed.

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Untold History of Ramen

A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of

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Concise Untold History of the United States

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century

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Untold History of the United States

Beginning with the bloody suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and spanning the two World Wars, this title documents how US administr

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Untold History of the United States

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Dark Side of the Cut

The previously untold hidden history of canals, revealing the dark side of crime and alcohol abuse and the real human cost of the Industrial Revolutio

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In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze

The remarkable untold biography of the first British woman to swim the Channel

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Norwich in the Second World War

Previously untold stories and unpublished photographs of Norwich in wartime

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Confinement

The untold history of pregnancy and childbirth in Victorian Britain

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Oceans Apart

Untold stories of overseas evacuees in their own words

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter

Anotace: THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history` Financial Times`Vast, learned and timely work` Sunday T...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, 1. vydání - Peter Frankopan

<p>THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunda...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter

Anotace: A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL`SMost people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.In The Earth Transformed, ground-...

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Necessary Women

The untold story of the women who have lived and worked in the Palace of Westminster

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Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes

This is the history of Detroit's African American community told by the men and women who lived it.

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Steel and Ice

A well-illustrated history of a hitherto untold and ignored U-boat story

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Churchill Girls

The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family.

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Churchill Girls

The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family.

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Till the Boys Come Home

The untold story of the army of men and women who kept British theatre alive during the First World War, and how the theatre aided the war effort

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Lindell's List

The untold story of Mary Lindell, one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War

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Boy Soldiers

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime

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Fierce

Every Goliath has a David - the untold true story of teenager David Whitelaw, who declared war on unspeakable evil

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Murray's Cabaret Club

Step below the pavements of Soho's Beak Street, and discover the untold tale of the exotic - and scandalous - Murray's Cabaret Club

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Spinning House

The untold story of how Cambridge University locked up women in their own private prison - and how the town fought to free them.

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The World of Ice & Fire - The Untold History - Martin George R. R.

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World o...

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The World of Ice &amp; Fire - The Untold History - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of...

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The World of Ice and Fire - The Untold History of Westeros and The Game of Thrones - Martin George R. R.

If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE W

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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios

<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...

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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - Mulleyová Clare

Anotace: This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the `Silent Unseen`. She was secr...

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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - Clare Mulleyová

<p>This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secre...

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Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts ?'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this cl

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The Modern History of Celtic Jewellery: 1840-1980

From the recovery after the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s to the booming Celtic Tiger of the 1990s, a revival of the ancient traditions of Celtic jewelry have become a part of how the Irish, as well as the Scots, Welsh and other Celts have expressed the

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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Ireland Tom

Anotace: Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, `good` viruses known as phages are infec...

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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Tom Ireland

<p>Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infect...

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The LGBTQ + History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - Dorling Kindersley

<p>Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenom...

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Behind the Enigma : The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain´s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency - Ferris John

Anotace: You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ.For a hundred years, GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and British secret statecraft. Famed for its codebreaking ac...

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Going with the Boys

From the bestselling author of The Unfinished Palazzo, the untold history of six groundbreaking women who fought to become front-line correspondents d

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The Icepick Surgeon

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide a

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Churchill´s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920 - Clifford Kinvig

<p>The story of Britain's invasion of Russia at the end of the First World War has remained largely untold. Although not its initial architect, its chief advocate, was the passionately anti-Bolshevik, Winston Churchill. "Churchill's Crusade" is the first complete account of a unique military operation - one which, if it had succeeded, would have changed th...

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen Ones

For the first time ever, discover the untold origin stories of some of the most important Slayers in history from all around the world

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

Anotace: A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity`s fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to tha...

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its...

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The Mosquito - Mark Winegardner

<p>A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to than...

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Heads

The sweeping untold history of the American psychedelic underground, the Grateful Dead, and beyond... The sweeping untold history of the American ps

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Shadowlands

The untold story of the hidden places across Britainthat have slipped through the fingers of history.

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Battle That Stopped Rome

The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.

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Sherpa

The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.

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Sherpa

The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.

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Her Finest Hour

The untold story of the female British secret agent forgotten by history.

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Darwin's Ghosts

An electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolution

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Go Down Together

The true, untold story of the disadvantaged young couple who became the most iconic and romantic gangsters in history.

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Bad Land

Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression.

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It All Dies Anyway

The untold history of the seminal cultural venue Jabberjaw-the underground star of Los Angeles's historic indie scene of the 1990s.

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Desert Queen

The untold story of Gertrude Bell, a woman as vital to the history of the Middle East as her friend and colleague, Lawrence of Arabia.

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Hidden Horticulturists

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden to

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty

Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demi

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Mustang

Mustang: The Untold Story examines the history of the aircraft afresh, within the orbit of tactical doctrine, strategy and even politics, as well as t

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Hidden Horticulturists

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden to

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A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage - Marcus Chown

<p>What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life. Unable to generate enough heat to maint...

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