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Books
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Straw Dogs : Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals€12.99
From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. . .
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The Theory of Everything Else€18.99
From the sports stars who use cosmic energy to office plants investigating murders, The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.
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A Brief History of Timekeeping€13.99
The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks. Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping.
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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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How Democracies Die : The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future€11.50
How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us?
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Under the Knife : A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable OperationsSpecial Price €7.99 Regular Price €11.99
Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery.
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The Muqaddimah : An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition€27.99
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world.
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Seventh World Ploughing Contest 1959Special Price €7.99 Regular Price €14.99
This is a reproduction of the official handbook of the Seventh World Ploughing Contest of 1959 that was held in Armoy, North Antrim.
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Theatres of Memory : Past and Present in Contemporary CultureSpecial Price €29.99 Regular Price €34.99
In this celebrated work, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. Instead, he argues that we live in an expanding historical culture, one which is newly alert to the evidence of the visual and altogether more pluralist than earlier versions of the national past.
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The Revision of European HistorySpecial Price €9.99 Regular Price €17.99
A fascinating reassessment of European history. It critiques the designation of the terms renaissance, enlightenment and reformation. History viewed through a 21st century perspective.