You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, Paperback

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An insightful biography, based on exclusive research, of Queen Elizabeth II, bringing us the full story of one of our greatest and best-loved monar...

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DescriptionAn anthology of 33 talks, articles, lectures and sermons by one of the most outstanding theologians of her generation. Elizabeth Templet...

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For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

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'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that cap...

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

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In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

An odyssey through the art, theory and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, ass...

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Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ruth DaltonIllustration(s): 88 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication dat...

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A personal account from the parents of Colette McCulloch, who was killed on the road after walking out of the specialist care facility for autistic...

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead....

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

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