Best Ever Crosswords 130 Brain Tastic Puzzles To Solve by Hinkler Books
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Category: Reference | Series: Decorative Puzzles
Biology for Dummies 2ed by Consumer Dummies Staff; Rene Fester Kratz; Donna Rae Siegfried
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Category: Reference | Series: For Dummies
An updated edition of the ultimate guide to understanding biology Ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us how and why? We humans are insatiably curious ...Show more
Black Holes - the Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Reference
"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for d ...Show more
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse
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Category: Reference | Series: Vintage
The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe's Airbus overtook America's Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained i ...Show more
Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics, a the Thinking Person's Guide to the Great Books of Philosop by James Russell
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Category: Reference | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein to Philip K Dick and the Moomins as well as contemporary thinkers such as Peter Singer and John R ...Show more
A Brief History of Tea by Roy Moxham
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Category: Reference | Series: Brief Histories
Behind the wholesome image of the world's most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. When tea began to be imported into the West from China in the seventeenth century, its high price and heavy taxes made it an immediate target for smuggling and dispute at every level, culminating ...Show more
A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements
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Category: Reference | Series: Brief History of
From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. Clements also ...Show more
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
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Category: Reference
Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa' ...Show more
Britain's Empire - Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
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Category: Reference
Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Br ...Show more
The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland
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Category: Reference
Was Rochester a murderer? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'Wuthering' mean? Did the Brontes all have tiny feet? To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, eminent Victorian scholar John Sutherland takes us on an A to Z ramble through the world of Charl ...Show more
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael Dirda
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Category: Reference
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for his ...Show more
Built on Bones -15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett
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Category: Reference
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why