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Alex Butterworth
[Paperback 2011]
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Looks at the interweaving lives of several key anarchists in the later years of the 19th century. In this thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, historian Butterworth follows the rise of violent revolutionaries from the failed Paris Commune of 1871 to the 1905 Russian Revolution.... more
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Paul Du Noyer
[Hardcover 2010]
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The definitive history of the city's rich musical heritage draws upon extensive original research, including interviews with David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer, Dusty Springfield, and Amy Winehouse The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who, and the Rolling Stones... more
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Steve Roud
[Paperback 2010]
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Discover the colourful traditions and bizarre superstitions of the world's most vibrant city. In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers? Why did 1920s working-class Londoners wear necklaces of blue beads? Who was the original inspiration for the 'pearly king' costume? And did... more
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Tom Fort
[Paperback 2011]
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Twenty years ago, Tom Fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe, bound for all points east. Eastern Europe was still a faraway place, just emerging from its half-century of waking nightmare, blinking, injured, full of fears but importantly full of hope, as well. Things were different... more
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Stephen Anderton
[Paperback 2011]
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Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that, after his death in 2006, the Heritage... more
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Christopher Winn
[Hardcover 2012]
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This glorious miscellany of good stories and fascinating facts about England, is the ultimate journey around the country, and includes history, legends, firsts, supremes, unusuals, inventions, birthplaces and gossip from each county. This irresistible miscelllany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and... more
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Claude Choules
[Paperback 2011]
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Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars. Claude learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduating to become an... more
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Anna Del Conte
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous... As a teenager, Anna became used... more
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John Scally
[Paperback 2010]
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In this celebration of the good, the bad and the beautiful of Gaelic games, John Scally carries out over a hundred revealing interviews with the players and managers who are synonymous with the game to present a unique oral history of the GAA.... more
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Bertie Ahern
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Working with Richard Aldous, Bertie Ahern has written a very human and compelling book which reveals what it was like to be Irish Taoiseach for more than ten tumultuous years during which the whole country and Europe was transformed. Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an... more
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Brian Keenan
[Paperback 2010]
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The story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut, and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was "An Evil Cradling" In this remarkable and equally moving act of retrieval, Brian Keenan has captured... more
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Niccolo Machiavelli ,
George Bull
[Paperback 1970]
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A newly revised translation of the bible of realpolitik, with a new chronology, a translator's note, a list of Machiavelli's principal works, and a map of Italy. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud... more
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Charles Dickens
[Paperback 1999, 1st Edition]
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"This ain't the shop for justice." --The Artful Dodger " " Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard... more
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Adolf Hitler
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Mein Kampf is perhaps the only notable work written in two volumes by Adolf Hitler, in 1924. Hitler was arrested when he took out a mass demonstration in favour of national unity for the formation of a socialist German state. He was tried by the Peoples Court in Munich and... more
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Alex Von Tunzelmann ,
Reginald Piggott ,
Meryl Sussman Levavi
[Paperback 2007]
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An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties--set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century--"Indian Summer" reveals how Britain ceased to be a superpower after it lost India as a colony. The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million... more
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D H Farmer
[Paperback 1998]
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This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan a whimsical... more
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Isaiah Berlin ,
Henry Hardy ,
Aileen Kelly
[Paperback 2008]
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Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia"-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. "Russian Thinkers" is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers... more
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Charles Dickens
[Paperback 1998]
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It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish. First published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most famous and popular novels. This stirring tale, set in the late eighteenth century against the backdrop of the French Revolution, is a novel for all generations.... more
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Livy ,
Titus Livy ,
Aubrey De Selincourt
[Paperback 2002]
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"This translation first published in 1960"--T.p. verso.... more
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Arthur Herman
[Paperback 2009]
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A new study of the story of a rivalry that shaped the history of the subcontinent, a bitter contest for the hearts and minds of the British public over a forty year period up until the granting of Independence in 1947. From the author of }To Rule The Waves{ and... more
