The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
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Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and...
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande
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Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb...
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and...
Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left
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Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market...
Lenin: A Biography
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Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated....
Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story
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Anew edition draws on fresh evidence from archive sources including decoded secret correspondence to...
My Crazy Century
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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating...
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
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Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied...
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German...
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
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Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its...