Escaping the Ordinary. How a Founder of the SAS Blazed a Trail at the End of Empire, Paperback - Lorna Almonds-Windmill

The continuing story of one of the Founders of the SAS is set in the meticulously researched backdrop of Britain's mid-20th Century default respons...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

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One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage ne...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

How is Britain enacting colonialism at home?

The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book sho...

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Natalie Loveless examines the institutionalization of artistic research-creation-a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research meth...

Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examin...

A science fiction mystery about the final two surviving members of the human race. Features an inclusive cast of characters and advocacy of the val...

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Reducere. One summer, while exploring the town during their annual stay at Grandma's house, two siblings and their cousin come across a creepy old house. The...

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from M...

If Daria Demarest didn't have ice water in her veins, like her coalminer father taught her, life might look bleak. She's divorcing successful but u...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East The fall of Constantinople was an event which had great reper...

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Biography of Earl Jellicoe, a British soldier, diplomat, and politician.

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivo...

Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Adriano MacconeIllustration(s): 100 b&wNumber of pages: 112Collection: Inspiration GuidePublication date: 2018Dimensio...

The Kate Greenaway-award winning author and illustrator of over 18 picture books emerges with a debut novel in which a boy called Ben Makepeace rec...

The classic comic science fiction masterpiece with a new introduction by Mitch Benn.

This is no ordinary apocalypse... Hannah wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo. Together, they...

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivo...

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In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a r...

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Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

The definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the greatest science story of our time - a Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial T...

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Wonderful photographs documenting the local rail scene from the late 1980s to the early twenty-first century, featuring a range of trains and locom...