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Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

'Astonishing… In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBA...
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The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill

Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston...
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Ataturk: Father of the Republic of Turkey

Ataturk: Father of the Republic of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. He...
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American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton

American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next...
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Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette

Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette

A major new biography of Antoine Barnave—the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutiona...
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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're fa...
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Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings

Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings

The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for th...
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The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax

The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax

Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential – and...
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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

‘Nobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way’ - The T...
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To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci

To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci

This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writ...
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Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821

Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821

An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emper...
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Crassus: The First Tycoon

Crassus: The First Tycoon

The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory “A...
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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities

Demetrius: Sacker of Cities

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to suc...
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Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen...
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography   Up from the Depths tells the in...
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€35.60

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