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  • Isabella of France
    Isabella of France
    The Rebel Queen
    Kathryn Warner
    Kathryn Warner, the biographer of Edward II, presents a compelling life of his wife Isabella of France, sister to the French king Charles IV, and one of the most notorious women in English history. Warner sets aside the stereotype of the 'she-wolf' to give a neutral study of the queen who rebelled. In 1326 Isabella, with her lover Roger Mortimer, forced Edward's abdication and ruled as regent to her son, Edward III, until her own deposition in 1330.

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  • Kingmakers
    Kingmakers
    How Power in England was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier
    Timothy Venning
    Following the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-Welsh border region of the Marcher lords became a classic frontier society, its difference from the rest of England marked by language and ethnicity and by the often violent military nature of its local rulers. This study traces the history of the main lordships, from pre-1066 Norman involvement in the region to the role of the Mortimers of Ludlow in late medieval politics and the beginnings of the Tudor dynasty.

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  • Jihad
    Jihad
    The Ottomans and the Allies 1914-1922
    The Ottoman Empire's declaration of a holy war against the Allied Powers in 1914 was the first jihad in the Arab world since the crusades, and led to the end of the ancient regime and the emergence of a secular Turkish state. This book examines the turbulent period during which the empire crumbled and the charismatic leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk emerged to resist the regional ambitions of the British and the Greeks and curb the political influence of Islam.

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  • The Rise of Athens
    The Rise of Athens
    The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
    Classical Athens, a community of just 200,000 citizens, not only gave birth to some of antiquity's greatest geniuses but also created the world's first democracy, raising political issues that remain relevant today. Complementing his account of The Rise of Rome, Everitt surveys the Athenian achievement, from the early centuries of kings and tyrants, through the democratic revolution and the city's intellectual and artistic flowering in the age of Socrates and Pericles, to its decline with the growth of Macedon.

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  • Healing Vegetarian Recipes
    Healing Vegetarian Recipes
    100 Healthy Recipes: Delicious Recipes for Body and Mind

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  • Healing Soup
    Healing Soup
    100 Healthy Recipes: Delicious Recipes for Body and Mind
    Bounty

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  • Houses and Their Furnishings in Bronze Age Palestine
    Houses and Their Furnishings in Bronze Age Palestine
    PM Michele Daviau
    Surveying archaeological researches in Palestine during the 20th century, this study examines the organization of domestic space and artefacts, assessing its contribution to our understanding of Bronze Age use of architectural space. No jacket.

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  • MoVida Solera
    MoVida Solera
    A Celebration of Andalusian Food and Culture
    Frank Camorra; Richard Cornish

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  • Knitskrieg!
    Knitskrieg!
    A Call to Yarns
    Uniform

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  • The Outer Hebrides
    The Outer Hebrides
    The Last 14,000 Years
    David Gilbertson; Martin Kent; John Grattan

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  • Elfrida
    Elfrida
    The First Crowned Queen of England
    Elizabeth Norton

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  • The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey
    The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey
    English Pioneer Modernist Architect and Designer
    David Cole

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  • Hereward
    Hereward
    Peter Rex

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  • Making Sense of Food & Wine
    Making Sense of Food & Wine
    Concepts for Combinations
    Christina Fischer

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  • Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading
    Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading
    Eric Downing; Jonathan M Hess; Richard V Benson

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  • Jean Plaidy Set
    Jean Plaidy Set
    Jean Plaidy

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  • Financing the Raj
    Financing the Raj
    The City of London and Colonial India, 1858-1940
    David Sunderland

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  • Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-jacques Rousseau
    Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-jacques Rousseau
    Violence. Identity, Nation
    Steven Howe

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  • RIBA Grand Journal: Perspective
    RIBA Grand Journal: Perspective
    RIBA

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    RIBA Grand Journal: Observatory
    RIBA

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  • The World's Greatest War Cartoonists and Caricaturists
    1792-1945
    Mark Bryant
    Intended as a companion to his pictorial histories of the Napoleonic, imperial and world wars, Mark Bryant's biographical dictionary covers political, editorial and joke cartoonists and caricaturists from the French Revolutionary Wars in 1792 to 1945. The entries, illustrated with reproductions of around 150 classic cartoons, describe the wartime careers of over 300 artists, arranged alphabetically from Crispim do Amaral (1858-1911) lampooning Queen Victoria during the Boer War, to the German First World War cartoonist Heinrich Zille (1858-1929).

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  • Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
    The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
    Kate Summerscale
    In June 1858, soon after the new Court of Divorce began sitting, Henry Oliver Robinson brought a divorce suit on the grounds of his wife's adultery, submitting her diary as evidence. Read aloud in court, the diary was more sensational than anything in contemporary fiction. Kate Summerscale tells the story of romance, scandal, the boundaries of privacy, and a diary in which Isabella Robinson 'seemed to have invited, and lovingly recorded, her own disgrace'.Slightly off-mint.

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  • Colne Through Time
    Geoff R Crambie; Colin Bean

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  • Saxophone Colossus
    A Portrait of Sonny Rollins
    Bob Blumenthal; Photo. John Abbott
    Still performing in his 80s, the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is one of the most dynamic jazz innovators of the post-war era. Abbott, Rollins's favourite photographer, brilliantly captures the man's personality both on stage and off, while the essays of jazz critic Blumenthal trace Rollins's long career performing with his own trio and other jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge and Slightly off-mint.

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  • The Balloonists
    The History of the First Aeronauts
    LTC Rolt
    On a November day 223 years ago Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandre ascended in their Montgolfier balloon to become the first aeronauts. This recent edition of LTC Rolt's classic book is a history of flight before the Wright Brothers. From the first Channel crossing and steam-driven powered flight, to the attempts at ballooning across the Atlantic, it features eye-witness accounts, anecdotes and impeccable research to shed new light on the beginnings of aviation.

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  • The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
    Evolution and the Making of Us
    Alice Roberts
    Lauded by Richard Dawkins, this book from the anatomist, anthropologist and presenter Alice Roberts takes a tour of the human body to track the evolutionary story told by different parts of our anatomy. From the tiny probability that a particular sperm will fertilize a particular egg to the unique flexibility of our thumbs - vital for making and using stone tools - she explains how millions of years of evolution have left their mark on the way human embryos develop.

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  • Forensics
    Val McDermid
    Val McDermid, a bestselling crime writer, takes a break from fiction and gives a compelling account of how forensic science solves crimes, with chapters on topics including fingerprints, insects, blood spatter, DNA and toxicology.

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  • Junk DNA
    A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
    Nessa Carey
    Only 2 per cent of our DNA contains the codes to produce proteins, so for many years scientists assumed that the rest of the genome was simply 'junk'. However, modern research is finally identifying the many vital functions performed by these 'dark' regions. In this book Carey introduces the most significant insights, with clear explanations for the general reader, and looks forward to the opportunities they provide for revolutionary developments in the treatment of a range of medical conditions.

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  • The Pearly Prince of St Pancras
    Alf Dole; Jeff Hudson
    Born into a family of costermongers, Alf Dole (1930-2013) was the grandson of the first Pearly King of St Pancras, and his proudest moment was putting on his own special suit as the Pearly Prince at the age of seven. His memoir vividly recalls a vanished world of pub singalongs, hop-picking summers in Kent and wartime camaraderie. With a foreword by the singer-songwriter Suggs.

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  • Midland Red in NBC Days
    Mike Greenwood; Paul Roberts

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  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
    Nigel Rogers
    The first half of this accessible history highlights the people and political processes behind Rome's gradual growth from its origins as a small Iron Age settlement; the second focuses on the Roman army's training and organization, and the campaigns in which it responded to the series of military crises that eventually brought the empire to an end. More than 470 illustrations complement the text - maps and diagrams illustrating key battles, as well as photographs showing ancient artefacts and archaeological sites.

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  • Early Japanese Railways, 1853-1914
    Engineering Triumphs that Transformed Meiji-era Japan
    Dan Free
    Illustrated with a remarkable collection of maps, old photographs, paintings and woodblock prints, this history of the early railways in Japan also illuminates the country's social and cultural history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. After describing Japan in its isolation from the West before 1853, Dan Free traces in detail the introduction of railway technology and the growth of the network up to nationalization in 1912-14. Finally the appendices list railway companies, their locomotives, liveries and crests (shamon).

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  • Breakfast with Lucian
    Geordie Greig
    Geordie Greig, the editor of The Mail on Sunday and, previously, Tatler, has interviewed most major living artists. As a close friend of Lucian Freud (1922-2011) he is well placed to deliver an insider's account of this enigmatic, uncompromising but hugely talented painter. Based on regular private conversations with the artist and interviews with his lovers, children and friends, this memoir is fresh and funny as well as profound, and illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's work.

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  • Tudors
    The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
    Peter Ackroyd
    Rich in detail and atmosphere, the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-volume history of England recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. The book covers the reigns of the Tudors from the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, and its dominant theme is the Reformation of the English Church.

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  • The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Boheme: The Complete Libretto
    Giacomo Puccini

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  • The Lost City of London
    Robert Wynn Jones
    The Great Fire of 1666 swept away much of medieval London, obliterating the city of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Pepys. Illustrated with modern colour photographs alongside historic prints and maps, this concise and erudite handbook provides an alphabetical gazetteer to the scattered structures that survive, from fragments of the Roman walls to Jacobean houses in Cloth Fair, and from the mighty White Tower to the tiny church of St Ethelburga.

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  • Libya
    From Colony to Revolution
    Ronald Bruce St John
    The overthrow of Qaddafi in 2011 appeared to signal a new dawn for Libya, but the country's future now seems uncertain once again. This comprehensive study navigates Libya's long history of occupation and despotic rule, from the ancient Greeks, through the Ottoman Empire to Mussolini. It provides an in-depth account of Qaddafi's regime, the Lockerbie bombing and the Arab Spring, and assesses the prospects for democracy in this troubled land.

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  • Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Flemish Painting
    State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
    Natalya Gritsay; Natalya Babina

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  • East Yorkshire Village Visits
    Martin Limon
    There are 31 studies of some of the East Riding's most interesting communities in this survey, based on the author's articles in the county magazine The Journal. Each essay discusses the village's notable architecture, especially churches and homes, as well as its social history. There are personal stories, including the experiences of the names on memorials to the First World War, and quotes from modern residents about more recent times. Many historic photographs complement the text.

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  • Celtic
    Paul Lunney
    Celtic changed from vertical green stripes to the famous hoops in the early years of the 20th century, and the distinctive jersey has since been worn by many of the greatest names in Scottish football. This book collects the official team photos from the first season of 1888 to the 2006-7 season as well as player portraits of legends such as Jock Stein and Bobby Murdoch. Changing Faces series.

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