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A History of Fireworks from Thei...

John Withington

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Islands and Contemporary Art

Cover for Gill Perry · Islands and Contemporary Art (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Marco Polo and His World - Medie...

Sharon Kinoshita

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Merpeople: A Human History

Vaughn Scribner

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Murder by Mail: A Global History...

Mitchel P. Roth

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The Newsmongers: A History of Ta...

Cover for Terry Kirby · The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Off the Ground: Paul McCartney i...

Cover for JR Moores · Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s (Hardcover Book) (2024)

A Philosophy of Hope

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The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizati...

Vadim S. Jigoulov

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The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life...

Cover for Rebecca Simon · The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Paperback Book) (2024)

Plato: A Civic Life - Great Live...

Prof Carol Atack

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Playgrounds: The Experimental Years

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Plunder?: How Museums Got Their ...

Justin M. Jacobs

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Readers for Life: How Reading an...

Cover for Readers for Life: How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Serendipity: The Afterlife of th...

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Sergei Prokofiev - Critical Lives

Christina Guillaumier

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A Short History of Tomb-Raiding:...

Cover for Maria Golia · A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures (Paperback Book) (2024)

Tofu: A Culinary History

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Robert Hooke’s Experimental Phil...

Felicity Henderson

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Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Ma...

Cover for Timon Screech · Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo (Paperback Book) (2024)

The Virtues of Underwear: Modest...

Cover for Nina Edwards · The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance and Filth (Hardcover Book) (2024)

The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’...

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Weeds - Botanical

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Amazing Worlds of Science Fictio...

Cover for Keith Cooper · Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Champagne: A Global History, Sec...

Becky Sue Epstein

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Alexander the Great: Lives and L...

DR Stephen Harrison

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Ballroom: A People’s History of ...

Dr Hilary French

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Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodi...

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Bountiful Empire: A History of O...

Priscilla Mary Isin

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A Brief History of Nakedness

Philip Carr-Gomm

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Brunelleschi and the Moment of t...

Marvin Trachtenberg

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Cannabis: A Global History - Edible

Bradley J. Borougerdi

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Christopher Isherwood - Critical...

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D. H. Lawrence - Critical Lives

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Doc or Quack: Science and Anti-S...

Sander L. Gilman

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Emile Zola: A Determined Life

Robert Lethbridge

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The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dyna...

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Hardcover Book Release August 18, 2025

The First Russian Revolution: Th...

Susanna Rabow-Edling

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Frederick Barbarossa - Medieval ...

Cover for G. A. Loud · Frederick Barbarossa - Medieval Lives (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Future Cities: Architecture and ...

Paul Dobraszczyk

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Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden Pe...

Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir

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The Green Fuse: Essays in Making...

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Gustav Mahler - Critical Lives

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Hans Memling and the Merchants -...

Mitzi Kirkland-Ives

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Hayek vs Keynes: A Battle of Ideas

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The Idea of Waste: On the Limits...

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Illumino: A History of Medieval ...

Michelle P. Brown

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Hardcover Book Release June 23, 2025

Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence

Daniel M. Grimley

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Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography ...

Eric Marshall White

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Life Itself: Photography and Sou...

Simon A. Clarke

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Light on Darkness: The Untold St...

Cosima Clara Gillhammer

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Lost Animals, Disappearing World...

Cover for Barbara Allen · Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction (Hardcover Book) (2025)

The Minoans: Lost Civilizations ...

Cover for Ellen Adams · The Minoans: Lost Civilizations - Lost Civilizations (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Miracula: Weird and Wonderful St...

Cover for Paul Chrystal · Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Cover for Larry Silver · Old Age in Art (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Open Play: The Case for Feminist...

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Peony - Botanical

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Rough Music: Folk Customs, Trans...

Cover for Liz Williams · Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend o...

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

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The Solar System - Kosmos

William Sheehan

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Hardcover Book Release June 30, 2025

SPAM: A Global History - Edible

Kelly A. Spring

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Tastes and Traditions: A Journey...

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Thomas Becket and His World - Me...

Michael Staunton

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Those They Called Idiots: The Id...

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Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and...

Katie Milestone

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The Turban: A History from East ...

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The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswai...

Peter Stanfield

Cover for Peter Stanfield · The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound (Hardcover Book) (2025)

The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac

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Al Dente: A History of Food in I...

Fabio Parasecoli

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Paperback Book Release July 1, 2025

Delicioso: A History of Food in ...

Maria Jose Sevilla

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Paperback Book Release August 1, 2025

The Age of Hitler and How We Wil...

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Berghain Nights: A Journey throu...

Cover for Liam Cagney · Berghain Nights: A Journey through Techno and Berlin Club Culture (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Hardcover Book Release October 1, 2025

Bernard Palissy and the Arts of ...

Francois Quiviger

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Street Style: Art and Dress in t...

Elizabeth Currie

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Que...

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Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectua...

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

The Man Who Lost His Head: On Il...

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Maurice Ravel - Critical Lives

Emily Kilpatrick

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Paperback Book Release July 1, 2025

The Perilous Deep: A Supernatura...

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Winter Dreams: A Historical Guid...

Rosenwein, Professor Barbara H. ...

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Hardcover Book Release July 1, 2025

Ancient Civilizations of Afghani...

Cover for Warwick Ball · Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism...

Allan I. Macinnes

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Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

The English Soul: Faith of a Nation

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Paperback Book Release August 1, 2025

The Experience Society: Life bey...

Svend Brinkmann

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Paperback Book Release August 1, 2025

In the Service of the Shogun: Th...

Cover for Frederik Cryns · In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams (Paperback Book) (2025)

Paperback Book Release August 1, 2025

Myriad, Microscopic and Marvello...

Geertje Dekkers

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Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Ocean Art: From the Shore to the...

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Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Scipio Africanus: The First Impe...

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Hardcover Book Release August 1, 2025

Contested Commons: A History of ...

Prof. Katrina Navickas

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

E.T.A. Hoffmann - Critical Lives

Professor Ritchie Robertson

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Paperback Book Release September 1, 2025

The Ethiopians: Lost Civilizatio...

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

Jean Baudrillard - Critical Lives

Emmanuelle Fantin

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Paperback Book Release September 1, 2025

Forever President: A Biography o...

Michael J. Seth

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

The Medieval Horse - Medieval Lives

Anastasija Ropa

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making...

Sara J. Charles

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Paperback Book Release September 1, 2025

Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasi...

Prof. Marcus Hall

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

Plunder?: How Museums Got Their ...

Justin M. Jacobs

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Paperback Book Release September 1, 2025

The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults...

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Stra...

Michaela Vieser

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Hardcover Book Release September 1, 2025

Eucalyptus - Botanical

Stephen D. Hopper

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Hardcover Book Release October 1, 2025