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The foreign office mind
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Thomas G. Otte |
With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, elite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy… |
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British encounters with India, 1750-1830
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Tim Keirn,Norbert Schürer |
"A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century primary texts and images that represent various facets of the cross-cultural interaction between India and Britain. The anthology suggests that for a bri… |
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Remembering Diana
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Victor J. Seidler |
"Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identificat… |
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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Owen Hatherley |
"Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiqu… |
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Ada's algorithm
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James Essinger |
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer… |
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Did she kill him?
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Kate Colquhoun |
"In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The "Maybrick Mystery… |
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The great detective
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Zach Dundas |
For longtime Conan Doyle fans as well as readers just discovering Sherlock Holmes, a wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sl… |
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Catherine of Aragon
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Philippa Gregory,Amy Licence |
viii, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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Through the Keyhole
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Susan C. Law |
256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm |
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The truth will out
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Brenda James,William Rubinstein,Brenda James |
Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered… |
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