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Books
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Not the End of the World : How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet€22.99
Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve them.
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Empires of the Steppes : The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation€20.99
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These tribes produced some of the world s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others.
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Amid Shifting Sands : Ancient History, Explosive Growth, Climate Change and the Uncertain Future of the United Arab€22.99
The United Arab Emirates are renowned for their enormous production of oil and the rise of great cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which attract millions of tourists annually. It is as if the great aridity of the country did not exist. Yet the UAE is essentially a vast desert, thinly peopled for thousands of years by nomads, grazing sheep, camels and growing a few crops in great oases like Al Ain and Liwa.
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The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD€20.99
A powerful, probing book about PTSD. In this powerful and intensely personal book, Keane interrogates what it is that draws him to the wars, what keeps him there and offers a reckoning of the damage done.
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The History of Russia : From the Rus' people to President Putin€23.99
From monarchy to the world's first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe's new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the past century, including purges, poisonings, famines, assassinations and massacres.
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The Weirdest People in the World€20.99
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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King Richard : Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy€23.99
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president.
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Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide : Identity, History and Hate Speech€23.99
The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. Myanmar (Burma), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Human rights, Political oppression & persecution
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Yesterday We Were In America : Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop€20.99
ON 14 June 1919 - eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic - two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy and flew into the history books.
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Stalin, Vol. II : Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941€23.99
Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.