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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
by Giles Milton
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by... (more)
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The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
by Heather Mac Donald
Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today’s elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In The Burden of Bad Ideas, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disastrous effects throughout our society. At a Brooklyn high school, students perfect their graffiti skills for academic credit. An Ivy League law professor urges blacks to steal from their... (more)
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Fifty Years of Europe: An Album
by Jan Morris
In this vibrant, personal journey through Europe proper, historian and writer Jan Morris--the world's most celebrated traveler--offers an intimate exploration of the continent, telling how it has changed--as well as remained unalterable--for the past half century.
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Trials of Radclyffe Hall
by Diana Souhami
This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book spans her whole life from her unhappy childhood to the contravercy of her most famous book" Well of Loneliness". Brilliantly written, witty and satirical, this major new biography brings a fresh and irreverent eye to the life of this fascinating eccentric.
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A History of Civilizations
by Fernand Braudel
This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments in almost every corner of the globe, from the Muslim world and the Far East to Europe and the Americas. Includes maps.
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The Erotomaniac
by Ian Gibson
Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong. This is an account of Victorian curiosity, repression and subverted desire. Ian Gibson has created a portrait of Ashbeen which examines the evidence that Ashbeen himself may have been the... (more)
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J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer
by Lavinia Greacen
The first biography of J.G. Farrell, author of The Singapore Grip and the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur.
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Long Life
by Nigel Nicolson
The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Bloomsbury with Knole, Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. He was Virginia Woolf's eleven-year-old companion while she was writing Orlando, her fantasy about his mother. He admired Mussolini in Rome and Goebbels in Berlin, then changed his mind when war came,... (more)
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History of Christianity (Lion Handbooks)
by Tim Dowley
This reference book brings together information from a range of sources, to provide information on the history of Christianity. It has been updated to include recent events in Eastern Europe.
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Testament of Experience
by Vera Brittain
Testament of Experience
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Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya 1880-1960
by Margaret Shennan
The story of British Malaya, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain's colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as... (more)
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Times Good University Guide 2000 : For Students Entering University in 2001
This guide contains The Times' university league table with information on every British University, and is produced in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers with contributions from Bernard Kingston and Andrew Hindmarsh, experts on university admissions. Anyone hoping to go to university but baffled by the bewildering range of courses and options on offer and perplexed by the rapidly changing face of higher... (more)
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Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Cities of the Imagination)
by David Horan
A new and innovative series offering in-depth cultural, historical and literary guides to the great cities of the world.
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Root into Europe: Henry Root's Journal of a Fact-finding Mission
by Henry Root
John is easy to please;: Encounters with the written and the spoken wordVed Mehta
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John is easy to please;: Encounters with the written and the spoken word
by Ved Mehta
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Invisibles a Tale of the Eunuchs of Indi
by Zia Jaffrey
A fascinating study of the "hijras" - a small sub-section of Indian society thatsubverts all the accepted notions of respectability and caste, and which, though controversial, is tolerated for the sake of history and tradition.
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The human species;: A biology of man
by S. A. Barnett
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Mankind and Mother Earth
A Narrative History of the World
by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebbecca Pine : The Story of a Changing Life
by Reg McKay
This is the incredible story of Robert Pine's transformation into Rebecca Pine and the shock waves this new persona causes in Scotland where Robert and his wife, Jean, live. It is also a love story, as Jean struggles to accept the changes in their lives. The story of strength in the face of adversity, of the courage to be true to one's self, None So Pretty is a transexual love story fitting for the new millennium. (more)