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General & World History
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The Virus in the Age of Madness€12.25
The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society.
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White People and Black Lives Matter : Ignorance, Empathy, and Justice€16.50
This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice.
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Upheaval : How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change (Paperback)€17.99
Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall.
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Real Irish New York : A Rogue's Gallery of Fenians, Tough Women, Holy Men, Blasphemers, Jesters, and a Gang of Other Colorful Characters€18.99
As they entered their 600th year of British occupation, the Irish looked to America.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities€24.00
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.
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Food, Feast & Fast : The Christian Era from Ancient World to Environmental Crisis€19.99
The demands of the Christian life have traditionally required some degree of reflection and consequent action fasting from food and abstinence from meat or alcohol. While restraint for health and dietary programmes is on the rise, fasting for religious motives has declined greatly in Western society.
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Figuring€16.99
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement.
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Republic of Lies : American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power€11.99
From UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America.
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Korea: A Very Short Introduction€10.99
Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regimes, at once both bizarre and menacing.
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From Peoples into Nations : A History of Eastern Europe€33.50
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today.