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A "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history--from Julius Caesar to......more
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Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated living authors. Her work, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Literatu......more
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Che Guevara’s definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition with a new foreword and photos. T......more
Dispelling the myths around this legendary queen, this biography of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I, re......more
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An innovative account of the lives and times of the ’warrior king’ Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by r......more
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A vivid biography of the elusive George Downing, a Puritan from colonial Massachusetts who became Oliver Cromwell’s chie......more
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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston’s Pur......more
A brilliant excavation of the life of bestselling historian Adam Zamoyski’s great-great-great-great grandmother, a princ......more
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In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby ......more
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Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Ran......more
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s fav......more
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In Iconoclast, Dr Anand Teltumbde, a distinguished public intellectual and leading authority on the Dalit movement, pres......more
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As intriguing and compelling as a work of fiction, the memoirs of ’André’ Joseph Scheinmann, mesmerize and enthrall the ......more
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In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to ad......more
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The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own cre......more
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge resea......more
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THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON BY HIS FRIEND CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL. Also includes: George Washington’s F......more
In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes ......more
Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder Thomas......more
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A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally b......more
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From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untol......more
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis in modern Jud......more
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A teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard’s......more
The definitive story of a top Chinese politician’s ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party. When Hu Yaobang died i......more
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A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries--an......more
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Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, "I am trying to collect t......more
"A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combi......more
A Gilded Age industrialist becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation. Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875......more
’As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of hi......more
A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician’s singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, an......more
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A Brazilian journalist’s investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for hiding "The Angel of De......more
From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins......more
This instant New York Times bestselling "dynamic detective story" (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf......more
Frederick Bailey doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times,......more
Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live......more
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership o......more
With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious......more
A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O’Ha......more
Embark on a gripping journey through the life of Tippu Tip, a pioneering 19th-century ivory trader whose exploits left a......more
He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as mu......more
Dr. Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the newcomer. A brilliant m......more
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The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At......more
An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island by European refugees,......more
Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard," dust storms behind him, ridi......more
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A "spectacular...brilliantly and magnetically written" (Rosalie Abella, former Canadian Supreme Court justice) dual biog......more