
Svetik: A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter
Anthony Phillips, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Walter Moskalew
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For well over half a century, since the Soviet regime first allowed Sviatoslav Richter to travel to...

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
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The book behind major BBC2 series The Seventies, Dominic Sandbrook's State of Emergency - The Way We...

The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
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Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made...

The Model T: A Centennial History
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"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small...

The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics...

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
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When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military...

Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...

Durer
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The prints of darkness The art, theory, and woodcut print revolution of Albrecht Durer A polymath of...

Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
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Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know...

The Earles of Liverpool: A Georgian Merchant Dynasty
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This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social...