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General & World History
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Irresistible : How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World€17.99
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up.
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Normal Women : 900 Years of Making History€29.99
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?
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Fear : An Alternative History of the World€29.99
It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before.
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The Secret History of the Mongols€15.99
A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan.
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Why We Fight : The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace€12.99
Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.
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The Great Defiance : How the world took on the British Empire€29.99
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set.
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Fake Heroes : Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History€22.99
Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a saint? Is Henry V actually England's greatest king? And why does JFK's legend continue to grow?
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I : The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History€21.99
Piecing together evidence from original documents and artefacts, this book tells the story of Anne Boleyn's relationship with, and influence over her daughter Elizabeth. In so doing, it sheds new light on two of the most famous and influential women in history.
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Berlin : Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century€11.99
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world.