
House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home
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Today we live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilised life. But we...

Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History: 2016
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This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a...
Black Baseball in New York City: An Illustrated History, 1885-1959
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For the first time, witness and read about New York's most prominent black teams, from post Civil...
Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History
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Covering the history and contributions of black women intellectuals from the late 19th century to...

White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties: v. 2: 1964-1970
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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the...

Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
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In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet...

A Brief History of the House of Windsor: The Making of a Modern Monarchy
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The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from...

Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
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'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the...