Social & Cultural History
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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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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022
Robert HardmanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britains leading royal authorities, R...
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Farah Karim-CooperCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...
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The Mystical Year: Folklore, Magic and Nature
Alison DaviesCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Celebrate spring and summer as a time of renewal with Flora the Roman Goddess of flowers and learn about balance in Litha.As the nights get longer,...
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The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Richard Curt KrausCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, ...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'...
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Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
Anne ApplebaumCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in ...
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SPQR: A Roman Miscellany
Anthony EverittCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you kn...
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The Urge: our history of addiction
Carl Erik FisherCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him...
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The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzleFor the first time, a complete reproduction ...
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Herbs: A Global History
Gary AllenCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50From ancient medicines to the savoury dishes of today, there is hardly a culture in the world that does not know and make use of herbs. Despite oft...
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A Ukrainian Christmas
Nadiyka GerbishCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLIA HERCULES'Christmas ...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm GaskillCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide histor...
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Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife
Jennifer WorthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost worl...
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig NelsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America''...
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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome''s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Phillip BarlagCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, its sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known...
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The Queen
Matthew DennisonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Cha...
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House Plants
Mike MaunderCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Our penchant for keeping house plants is an ancient practice dating back to the Pharaohs. House Plants explores the stories behind the plants we br...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
David AbulafiaCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human histo...
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The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
George SoltCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a s...
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Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS: A memoir
Derek FrostCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short its also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pionee...
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The Cambridge History of Communism 3 Volume Paperback Set
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €89.99Original price €99.19The Cambridge History of Communism is an unprecedented global history of communism in the twentieth century. With contributions from a team of lead...
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Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers
Garry MacKenzieCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of lit...
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Johan HuizingaCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it is fre...
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Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
Helen MoralesCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical ima...
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