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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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The National Trust Book of Scones: 50 delicious recipes and some curious crumbs of history
Sarah ClellandCurrent price €15.55Original price €15.99Sarah Merker brings you 50 scone recipes from the National Trust. History is best enjoyed with a scone, as everyone whos visited a National Trust ...
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Greg JennerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99''Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.'' Guardian''A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where a...
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Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England
Jason CowleyCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022''I cant tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesnt have ...
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The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
Dr Ross KingCurrent price €15.35Original price €15.99'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful...
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Timecode of a Face
Ruth OzekiCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as sh...
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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Niall FergusonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at...
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Sicily: A Cultural History
Joseph FarrellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe an...
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Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
Graydon CarterCurrent price €57.71Original price €73.99Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and cultureboth highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384...
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Great Designs: The World''s Best Design Explored and Explained
DKCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics e...
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Studies on the Civilization of Islam
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen GibbCurrent price €43.78Original price €51.50Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and liter...
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Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
Nina-Sophia MirallesCurrent price €12.91Original price €16.99''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People''s History, 1962-1976
Frank DikoetterCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as ''definitive and harrowing'', this is the final volume of ''The People''s Trilogy'', begun by the Samuel Johnson pri...
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The Secret Library: A Book Lover''s Journey Through Curiosities of Literature
Oliver TearleCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know wha...
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Save 10% Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle)
BoogieCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle) sheds new light on French-Canadian and Métis deployments in North Ame...
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Save 10% 100 Thousand Poets for Change: 10+ Years of Poetic Activism. A Collective Memory (2011-2023)
Canuto RoldnCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99This research monograph answers the question how sustainability driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability goals through thei...
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Save 10% Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley
Robert McPhersonCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley provides a traditional Navajo view of this iconic landscape and its people. Couched in...
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Save 10% A History of Abortion and Contraception in Queensland, Australia, 19601989: Sex under Conservative Rule
Cassandra ByrnesCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australias most conservative state, Queensland. In western nations, th...
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Save 10% I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda SeymourCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly br...
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Save 10% Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
Robert ShaplenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that shed had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret ...
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Save 10% Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America
Leland T. SaitoCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban dev...
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Save 10% Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Tabitha StanmoreCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour MALCOLM GASKILLAbsolutely fascinating IAN MORTIMERHistorian Tabitha Stanmore transports us to a time ...
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Save 10% Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
Robert Aquinas McNallyCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States vision of itself, largely through the system ...
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Save 21% We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California
Martin Rizzo-MartinezCurrent price €36.33Original price €45.99Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records ...
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Save 10% Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance
Gale P. JacksonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Li...
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Save 10% Suffragist Migration West After Seneca Falls, 1848-1871: Catharine Paine Blaine
Stephanie Stidham RogersCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Current price €85.49Original price €94.99Save 10% -
Save 10% Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide
Summer CherlandCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how...
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Save 21% Kith: Scottish Seasonal Food for Family and Friends
Sarah RankinCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a ...
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Sarah RankinCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a ...
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Save 10% Spectacles of Waste
Warwick AndersonCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this mirac...
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Nicholas OrmeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The first history of childhood in Tudor England Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children...
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Save 15% Wheels of Her Own: American Women and the Automobile, 1893-1929
Carla R. LeshCurrent price €42.49Original price €49.99Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them. Black, Indigenous, and White American women utilized the automobile to improve their qua...
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Save 13% To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater
Mary B. RobinsonCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professi...
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Save 10% The Chronicler of China: Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (Sixteenth- to Seventeenth Centuries)
Diego SolaCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 15...
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Save 10% The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Jeff SharletCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture w...
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Save 17% The Harriet Tubman Way: An Inspirational Guide to Self-Love, Empowerment, and Legendary Leadership for Girls (Journal)
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Save 13% Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
Darius BostCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of uns...
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Save 10% Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London
Lynn HamiltonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Charles Dickens Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factorie...
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Save 10% Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia
Dee PeyokCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the...
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Save 10% Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses
Julie TottmanCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together schola...
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Save 21% Miniature British Building Archive: Introducing The: 2024: 1
In House PublicationsCurrent price €9.47Original price €11.99Current price €9.47Original price €11.99Save 21% -
Save 10% Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders
Virgil CainCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...
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Save 10% Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture: Volume 1. New Directions
University of South Carolina PressCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture.
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Save 10% Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare''s First Tragic Heroine
Sophie DuncanCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating . . . as vital and provocative as the character herself'LITERA...
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Save 10% A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of ThailandInspired by Craig J. Reynolds
Cornell University PressCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99A Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conc...
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Save 10% Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Bénédicte BoisseronCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The animal-rights organization PETA asked Are Animals the New Slaves? in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Human...
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