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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
- £14.00
- It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
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The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
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The General Vs. The President: MacArthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War
- £12.00
- From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent…
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The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
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The Gift Of Music: Great Composers And Their Influences
- £14.00
- One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs. The result is a remarkable and…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Gospel Code: Novel Claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci
- £15.00
- Ben Witherington III confronts the claims of The Da Vinci Code with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers: Was Jesus really…
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Great Shame (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population to famine, emigration, or…
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
- Add to basket
-
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
- £14.00
- It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account…
- Add to basket
-
The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
- Add to basket
-
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
- Add to basket
-
The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
- Add to basket
-
The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
- Add to basket
-
The General Vs. The President: MacArthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War
- £12.00
- From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent…
- Add to basket
-
The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
- Add to basket
-
The Gift Of Music: Great Composers And Their Influences
- £14.00
- One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs. The result is a remarkable and…
- Add to basket
-
The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
- Add to basket
-
The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
- Add to basket
-
The Gospel Code: Novel Claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci
- £15.00
- Ben Witherington III confronts the claims of The Da Vinci Code with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers: Was Jesus really…
- Add to basket
-
The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
- Add to basket
-
The Great Shame (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population to famine, emigration, or…
- Add to basket
-
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
- Add to basket