Social & Cultural History
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Hein de HaasCurrent price €36.39Original price €37.39Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated si...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick JoyceCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompa...
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Caliban Shrieks
Jack HiltonCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br...
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Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Daniel LiebermanCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes t...
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Breathe: A Life in Flow
Rickson GracieCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracies stun...
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Guido AlfaniCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their commu...
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Our Moon: A Human History
Rebecca BoyleCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'TELEGRAPH'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book t...
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was respons...
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Meghan Misunderstood
Sean SmithCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent
Judi DenchCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard as she shares her story with, and endur...
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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires
Paul StrathernCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...
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Star Wars Year by Year
Daniel WallaceCurrent price €37.79Original price €44.99Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly...
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Emerson''s Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea
Tyler GreenCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emersons Nature urges Americans to value and immerse...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
Henrietta HarrisonCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99A fascinating history of Chinas relations with the Westtold through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to Chin...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. BaptistCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's lat...
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John GuyCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwa...
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
Jo TeeuwisseCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99**An International Bestseller**Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world ...
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Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
Michael BenderCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room del...
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Hope and Glory: Rugby League in Thatcher''s Britain
Anthony BroxtonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Hope and Glory recreates the extraordinary era of Thatcherite Britain with the dramatic tension of a novel, revealing it as a critical moment in ru...
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Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Jared DiamondCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamonds Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfold...
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The Stonewall Reader
Penguin Books LtdCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activis...
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Messiah
Jonathan KeatesCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses...
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Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world
Karen ArmstrongCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book,...
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Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful insights...she has another bestseller...
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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Dr Kit HeyamCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and mov...
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Barcelona: A Literary Guide for Travellers
Mike GonzalezCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Into the heart of one of the world's most alluring cities through the imaginations of over 50 writers and artists. Barcelona is a fountain of cour...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
Liba TaubCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the exp...
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Brutalism
Billy ReadingCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Brutalist architecture is ever-present in the British urban landscape, from car parks and bus garages to schools, universities and cultural centres...
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Early Israelites: Two Peoples, One History: Rediscovery of the Origins of Ancient Israel
Igor P LipovskyCurrent price €14.03Original price €16.50Current price €14.03Original price €16.50Save 15% -
Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland
Sara SheridanCurrent price €11.20Original price €15.99For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time ...
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Anna FunderCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure' Claire Tomalin, Guardian Extr...
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The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right
Enzo TraversoCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two...
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Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis
Peter ConradCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Peter Conrads exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts ...
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A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life
Greg JennerCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly ac...
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