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    Making the Renaissance Man
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    Making the Renaissance Man

    Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they...
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    Dante's New Lives
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    Dante's New Lives

    Numerous books have attempted to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri, yet essential questions remain unanswered. How did this self-taught Florentine become the celebrated author of the Divine Comedy? Was his exile from Florence so extraordinary? How...
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    Aldus Manutius
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    Aldus Manutius

    A fresh reading of Aldus Manutius, preeminent in the history of the printed book.Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest gure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe's capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more rst...
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    Stones
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    Stones

    From small beach pebbles to huge megaliths, stones have been revered, collected, enhanced, sculpted or engraved for practical and artistic purposes throughout the ages. They have been used to delineate boundaries and to build homes and shelters, and...
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    Squirrel Nation
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    Squirrel Nation

    Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen...
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    Living with the Dead
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    Living with the Dead

    Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it's also a practical problem - what do we do with dead bodies? The Viestads live by a cemetery and are daily spectators of its routines, and their fascination with burials led them to dig deep to...
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    In Defense of Processed Food
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    In Defense of Processed Food

    Taking in turn a scientific, feminist, economic and public-health perspective, this book gleefully demolishes much of the received wisdom surrounding processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that most of these foods are fairly healthy, and their...
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    Crooner
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    Crooner

    Crooners sing close to the mic in a soft, intimate style. In this book Alex Coles explores the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present.Each chapter focuses on one song and one singer - Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Barry White, David Bowie,...
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    Albrecht Drer
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    Albrecht Drer

    The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist of the time begins to compare with Albrecht Durer in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in...
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    Why Fast?
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    Why Fast?

    Conventional wisdom says that all we need to do to stay fit and trim is to exercise regularly and eat a low-fat, whole-food diet. Yet more and more people want to fast, forgoing food altogether. But should we fast? And does fasting speak to something...
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    Richard Owen
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    Richard Owen

    Brilliant, hard-working, immensely productive and influential, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great promoter of science, and played a large role in shaping London's Natural History Museum. An often difficult and arrogant individual, he was...
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    How the Country House Became English
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    How the Country House Became English

    Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and insularity. The histories of country houses and England, however, have...
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    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) was one of the first writers of free verse in English, best known for her sparse Imagist poems. For over forty years she wrote poetry that resurrected forgotten ancient goddesses, and autobiographical prose that explored...
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    The Globe
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    The Globe

    The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to...
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    The Food Adventurers
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    The Food Adventurers

    From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise-liner's luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the...
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    Dreamwork
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    Dreamwork

    Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know...
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    The Point of the Needle
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    The Point of the Needle

    Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing's place in our lives. It celebrates not...
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    Tales of the Earth

    Tales of the Earth is a comprehensive yet concise overview of Native American mythologies. After outlining theories of the origins of Native North Americans, David Leeming considers the creation myths of many tribes, emphasising four commonly occurring...
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    Games People Played
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    Games People Played

    Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. The book shows how sport has been practiced, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It assesses how sports developed and diffused across the globe,...
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    Blood, Sweat and Earth
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    Blood, Sweat and Earth

    Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolisation of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of...
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    Assassins Creed: The Culinary Codex
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    Assassins Creed: The Culinary Codex

    Step into the Animus and prepare to be transported to the world of Assassin's Creed!With 40 recipes across ten full menus each inspired by the times and places where the most famous Assassins lived and fought you can relive the highlights of the Italian...
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    The Art of Pacific Rim
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    The Art of Pacific Rim

    The Art of Pacific Rim: The Black retraces Taylor and Hayley's dramatic odyssey from the perspectives of the talented producers, directors, writers and animators who created this immensely popular series.They provide fascinating insight into how the...
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  • The Great Decoupling
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    The Great Decoupling

    For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the 'Hundred Years of Humiliation', and a long struggle for a...
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  • Critical Muslim 49
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    Critical Muslim 49

    There is more to Scotland than the intensifying debate on independence. This is a rich land, with a rich culture and past that defy commonly held stereotypes of the Scottish people. But their nation also played a central role in the British Empire and...
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    Economic War
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    Economic War

    Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means'...
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    The Japanese Talmud
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    The Japanese Talmud

    The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and mockery, identification and denial. This book explores what 'Jew' means to many East Asians, and whether it is anything that Jewish...
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    Duce: The Contradictions of Power
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    Duce: The Contradictions of Power

    Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's...
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    The Sacred Republic
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    The Sacred Republic

    This book presents a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the establishment, evolution and current significance of different institutions in today's Islamic Republic of Iran. The volume draws on the insights of a number of Iran experts to examine...
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    Creative Insecurity
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    Creative Insecurity

    The Middle East is experiencing the world's most prominent youth bulge. Yet many MENA economies' institutional designs, both formal and informal, favour the power of business elites, systematically discriminating against young people...
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    Anarchy or Chaos
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    Anarchy or Chaos

    In this fascinating biography of the Indian revolutionary M. P. T. Acharya (18871954), Ole Birk Laursen uncovers the remarkable transnational networks, movements and activities of India's most important anticolonial anarchist in the twentieth century...
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    Making the Impossible Possible
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    Making the Impossible Possible

    Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent disability. But a diagnosis of leprosy can have consequences that go far beyond the disease's...
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    Extreme Britain
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    Extreme Britain

    Misogyny and 'toxic masculinity' are increasingly implicated in radicalisation. From the men's incel ('involuntary celibate') movement online, to jihadist groups like Islamic State, to radical right 'Free Speech' protests - radicalisation spans...
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  • Borderless Africa
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    Borderless Africa

    The African Continental Free Trade Area, established in 2018, represented a monumental step forward for Africa in terms of meeting longstanding aspirations for greater economic and political integration. But it has nonetheless been met with scepticism in...
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    The Small States Club
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    The Small States Club

    In this book, Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, argues that small states can navigate the complex challenges of the twenty-first century in smarter ways than 'greater' powers. For smallness - often regarded as a weakness - can be a strength...
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  • The Forest Brotherhood
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    The Forest Brotherhood

    A common view is that the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945. But fighting continued for over a decade in the Baltic states. Stuck between two totalitarian regimesStalin's USSR and Hitler's Reichthe populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
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  • Belarus in Crisis
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    Belarus in Crisis

    In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant...
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    Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
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    Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland

    Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to...
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  • Internal Empire
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    Internal Empire

    Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas...
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  • Lancastrians
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    Lancastrians

    A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond.This popular history explores the cultural heritage and identity of Lancashire, stretching from the Mersey to the Lake District. Paul...
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  • Plotters
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    Plotters

    An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of - because the perpetrators were caught in time.Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast iceberg...
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  • Z Generation
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    Z Generation

    How did Vladimir Putin win Russians' support for his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, bottom-up narrative reveals the dark realities of youth fascism in Russia - and the darker future awaiting...
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  • Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours
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    Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours

    When Aisha Sarwari moved to America as a young woman, she set out to create her own identity and story. Born in Uganda, she had never lived in South Asia, yet struggled to reconcile the cultural expectation to be a 'good Muslim girl' with her desire for...
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  • Another India
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    Another India

    Another India tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims - elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical - it brings the experience of...
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  • China Unbound
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    China Unbound

    As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar...
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  • Tiger Girl
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    Tiger Girl

    Pascale Petit's Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. Tiger girl is the grandmother, with her tales of wild tigers, but...
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  • The Venison Bible
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    The Venison Bible

    Nichola Fletcher has been a key champion of venison for over four decades and was awarded an MBE for services to the venison industry.In this book she gives fail-safe instructions for the different cooking methods (grilling, frying, roasting and...
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  • The Scottish Tattie Bible
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    The Scottish Tattie Bible

    Ever since the humble potato arrived from Peru around 1730 it has been a key component of the Scottish diet. In this book Liz Ashworth introduces the heritage and history of the potato and the numerous varieties available, including information on...
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  • The Last Sunset in the West
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    The Last Sunset in the West

    In 2014, marine biologist Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the research vessel Silurian to seek out Britain's West Coast Community of orca and study them before we lose them forever. Though this orca pod has delighted scientists and whale watchers...
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