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Social Development and Social Changes in China: From 1949 to 2019

Social Development and Social Changes in China: From...

Author: Yi Zhang
ISBN: 9789819711833
Format: Hardback
$316.77

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961340
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  Read More >>

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the...

Author: Virginia Nicholson
ISBN: 9780349014319
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning...  Read More >>

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600...

Author: Fareed Zakaria
ISBN: 9780241692417
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized...  Read More >>

The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To...

Author: Jack Cornish
ISBN: 9781405951289
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history Hundreds...  Read More >>

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of...

Author: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780008394394
Format: Hardback
$45.00

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If...  Read More >>

Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto...

Author: Joshua M. Greene
ISBN: 9781338880519
Format: Hardback
$26.99

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of history's most powerful acts of resistance. Here, author Joshua M. Greene (Signs...  Read More >>

Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat

Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat

Author: Joe Shute
ISBN: 9781399402507
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired...  Read More >>

If You Run Out of Words: A Picture Book

If You Run Out of Words: A Picture Book

Author: Felicita Sala
ISBN: 9781419766886
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / the Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / the HaçIenda

Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / the Warehouse...

Author: Sacha Lord
ISBN: 9780008656317
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Like most Mancunians of his age, Sacha Lord's life has been a tale of two cities. Then and now.  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet a Jacobs ,  Lydia Marie Child
ISBN: 9798869301574
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a poignant narrative by Harriet A. Jacobs, recounting her harrowing experiences...  Read More >>

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor...

Author: Matthew Collin
ISBN: 9781913172558
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral...

Author: Steven Gaines ,  Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781800962330
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A stunning, revelatory new book about the final years of the Beatles based on extraordinarily frank, never-before-published...  Read More >>

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the...

Author: Norman Ohler
ISBN: 9781838953584
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into...  Read More >>

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960...

Author: Victor G Kiernan ,  Tariq Ali
ISBN: 9781804291078
Format: Paperback
$49.99

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare  Read More >>

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in...

Author: Brad Evans
ISBN: 9781913462840
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage: or, Serious Laughter

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage: or, Serious...

Author: David Gram
ISBN: 9780367219284
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of...  Read More >>

The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order

The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International...

Author: Joanne Yao
ISBN: 9781526178701
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three...  Read More >>

Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages...

Author: Angus J L Winchester
ISBN: 9781837651320
Format: Paperback
$67.25

An authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day....  Read More >>

Analysing the History of British Social Welfare: Compassion, Coercion and Beyond

Analysing the History of British Social Welfare: Compassion,...

Author: Jonathan Parker (Bournemouth University and University of Stavanger)
ISBN: 9781447363705
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies in Britain. By identifying continuities...  Read More >>

Ignorance: A Global History

Ignorance: A Global History

Author: Peter Burke
ISBN: 9780300276503
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day  Read More >>

Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde

Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New...

Author: Anton Pujol ,  Jaume Martí-Olivella
ISBN: 9781487544508
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe....  Read More >>

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat...

Author: Hannah Proctor
ISBN: 9781839766053
Format: Paperback
$32.99

How to maintain hope in the face of despair  Read More >>

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