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Books
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks (Hardback)€29.99
From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two.
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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 (Hardback)€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 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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War And Peace : On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples€29.99
War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.
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Papyrus : The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Hardback)€29.99
Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for.
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Ten Cities that Led the World : From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity (Hardback)€29.99
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made.
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China€29.99
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.
China, 20th century, Biography: historical, political & military, Asian history, Gender studies: women, Political ideologies
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John F. Kennedy: From Florida to the Moon€25.55
It was September 12, 1962, when Pres. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people.
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Upheaval : How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change€29.20
'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall.<