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ISBN: 9781844087662 - Careless People Careless People
Sarah Churchwell

ISBN10: 1844087662  ISBN13: 9781844087662
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting readers across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the... More

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ISBN: 9780199660933 - The Enlightenment The Enlightenment
Anthony Pagden

ISBN10: 019966093X  ISBN13: 9780199660933
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking... More

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ISBN: 9780230752337 - Flappers Flappers
Judith Mackrell

ISBN10: 0230752330  ISBN13: 9780230752337
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Macmillan
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to... More

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ISBN: 9781408704103 - Women at the Ready Women at the Ready
Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson

ISBN10: 1408704102  ISBN13: 9781408704103
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Little, Brown
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 22 May 2013
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had... More

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ISBN: 9780300195729 - Men from the Ministry Men from the Ministry
Simon Thurley

ISBN10: 0300195729  ISBN13: 9780300195729
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. This book explains why the extraordinary... More

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ISBN: 9780300185386 - Ireland and the Picturesque Ireland and the Picturesque
Finola O'Kane

ISBN10: 0300185383  ISBN13: 9780300185386
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at core of the picturesque's development and... More

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ISBN: 9781905959983 - Dark Side of the Moon Revealed Dark Side of the Moon Revealed
Brian Southall

ISBN10: 1905959982  ISBN13: 9781905959983
Publisher: Ovolo Books Limited Clarksdale
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Not only the biggest-selling album of its time but one that had an effect on everything that came after. Timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the album's release, this book looks at the making of one of the biggest albums of all time... More

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ISBN: 9780745333526 - A History of Anthropology A History of Anthropology
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen

ISBN10: 0745333524  ISBN13: 9780745333526
Publisher: Pluto Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and... More

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ISBN: 9781780950075 - Death and Destruction on the Thames in London Death and Destruction on the Thames in London
Anthony Galvin

ISBN10: 1780950071  ISBN13: 9781780950075
Publisher: Golden Guides Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Discover who sailed to their doom on infamous shipwrecks such as the Princess Alice or after travelling through Traitors' Gate to their execution, as well as murders, suicides & drownings. Read about the destruction of buildings through fires... More

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ISBN: 9781849906654 - Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times
Alan Titchmarsh

ISBN10: 1849906653  ISBN13: 9781849906654
Publisher: Ebury Press BBC Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013