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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR38 Mills Lane - Savannah Revisited : History and Architecture - HB - 1994 Edition ( Originally 1977) This handsome gift volume surveys in words and pictures the early and colorful history of the colonial outpost, the development of its extraordinary town plan, its dignified architecture, the city's 20th century decline and its recent renewal. The book... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: £14.30 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. 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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: £14.30 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. 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MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: £14.30 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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Quick view sku: MED99 Peter Latham - Brahms ( The Master Musicians Series) 1966 ( Originally 1948) Hardcover in dustjacket, a volume in the Master Musicians series of biographies of classical musicians. 1966, a revision of the 1948 original. Both a biography and a study of the composer's work . MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR38 Mills Lane - Savannah Revisited : History and Architecture - HB - 1994 Edition ( Originally 1977) This handsome gift volume surveys in words and pictures the early and colorful history of the colonial outpost, the development of its extraordinary town plan, its dignified architecture, the city's 20th century decline and its recent renewal. The book... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: £14.30 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... 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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: LAR38 Mills Lane - Savannah Revisited : History and Architecture - HB - 1994 Edition ( Originally 1977) This handsome gift volume surveys in words and pictures the early and colorful history of the colonial outpost, the development of its extraordinary town plan, its dignified architecture, the city's 20th century decline and its recent renewal. The book... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: £14.30 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: LAR37 Linda Kitson - The Falklands War : A Visual Diary - PB - 1982 On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 62439H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Written in History : Letters that Changed the World INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century:... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 64691H Uta Ranke-Heinemann / Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven : The Catholic Church and Sexuality All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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Quick view sku: x35701E John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback) Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: X88435H Susan Richards / Lost and Found in Russia : Encounters in a Deep Heartland (Hardback) Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35579E Russell Baker / Looking Back (Hardback) Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91730H Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History (Hardback) He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: BIG353 Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED97 Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. 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He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. 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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... 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