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Young Victoria
ISBN: HB: 9780300238877, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus.
This beautiful, extensively researched volume investigates the birth and early life of one of the most familiar British monarchs, Queen Victoria (1819-1901). A wealth of material, including many unexamined sources and unpublished images, sheds new li...
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£35,00
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Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...
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£9,99
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£16,99
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Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War
ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...
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£26,00
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You Never Know Your Luck Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie DFC
ISBN: HB: 9780993415227, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.
When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have...
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£25,00
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You Were Never in Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...
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£11,50
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£20,00
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