Muskets and Minuets (Muskets Trilogy #1)
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Love. Politics. War. Amidst mounting tensions between the British crown and the American...
Young Adult Historical Fiction
Apple
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Apples have sustained, delighted and intoxicated people throughout history. This ubiquitous fruit...
Boats on the Marne: Jean Renoir's Critique of Modernity
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Boats on the Marne offers an original interpretation of Jean Renoir's celebrated films of the 1930s,...
Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans
Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker
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Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting...
Wolf Hall
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Costa Novel Award...
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...
Politics economics finance
Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb
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George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...
Known and Strange Things
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A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and...
A Bold and Dangerous Family
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Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty...
History Politics
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
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As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in...