The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History
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Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of...
The Atlantic Trade and British Architecture, Art and Landscape 1740-1840
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2007 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and its...
The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes
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In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked...
The Greenest Nation?: A New History of German Environmentalism
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Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict...
The History of Radiology
Adrian M K Thomas and Arpan K. Banerjee
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In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working...
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow
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What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero...
Bali: Sustainable Visions
Isabella Ginanneschi and Duncan Murray Kirk
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Discover how visionary architects and designers are pioneering a new, environmentally sustainable...
Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World
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Stuart Walker's design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and...
Towards a Typology of Soviet Mass Housing: Prefabrication in the USSR 1955 - 1991 (the Set)
Philipp Meuser and Dimitrij Zadorin
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Soviet mass housing is a contradictory but unique phenomenon. It is usually blamed for creating the...
Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
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Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body...