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A Short History of Humanity
£14.99A Short History of Humanity
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We’ve survived and thrived because we’ve never stopped moving. In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future. Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors’ DNA like journals chronicling personal stories of migration, Krause charts two millennia of adaption, movement and survival, culminating in the triumph of Homo Sapiens as we swept through Europe and beyond in successive waves of migration – developing everything from language, the patriarchy, disease, art and a love of pets as we did so.
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Burning the Books
£20.00Burning the Books
Opening with the notorious bonfires of ‘un-German’ and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, ‘Burning the Books’ takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it.
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Destroyer Men: Early Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN and Life of Rear
£20.00Destroyer Men: Early Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN and Life of Rear
Alec Dennis and Anthony Dennis-Cumming
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Jane Austen At Home
£10.99Jane Austen At Home
This telling of the story of Jane’s life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison.
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Maud Beerbohm Tree: Lady of the Stage
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Thames Mudlarking
£9.99Thames Mudlarking
An illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshores of the River Thames.
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The Craft
£25.00The Craft
Professor Dickie’s ‘The Craft’ is a surprising exploration of a movement that not only helped to forge modern society, but still has substantial contemporary influence. With 400,000 members in Britain, over a million in the USA, and around six million across the world, understanding the role of Freemasonry is as important now as it has ever been.
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