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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
- £20.00
- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
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In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
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Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
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John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
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John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
- £6.00
- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
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Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
- Add to basket
-
In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
- Add to basket
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In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
- £20.00
- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
- Add to basket
-
In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
- Add to basket
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Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
- Add to basket
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
- Add to basket
-
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
- Add to basket
-
Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
- Add to basket
-
Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
- Add to basket
-
J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
- Add to basket
-
John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
- Add to basket
-
John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
- £6.00
- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
- Add to basket
-
Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
- Add to basket
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
- Add to basket
-
Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
- Add to basket