Social & Cultural History
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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