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The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science

By Winchester, Simon, Simon Winchester

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren

By Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary University of London)

John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science

By Jack Morrell

Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis

By Simon Goodman

A Soldier's Song

By Ken Lukowiak

And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Eric Burner

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent

By John Simpson

Gorbachev: Making of the Man Who Shook the World

By Gail Sheehy

Warriors of God

By Reston, James

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 2: The Young Statesman, 1901-14

By Randolph s. churchill, Martin Gilbert

Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend

By Fiaz Rafiq, Rasheda Ali

Peter the Great

By Robert K. Massie

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 8: Never Despair, 1945-65

By Martin Gilbert

TheWorld of Yesterday by Zweig, Stefan ( Author ) ON May-01-2010, Paperback

By Zweig, Stefan

Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

By Barbara Hosking

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship

By Colin Duriez

Meet Paul (Triangle Special S.)

By Coggan, Donald, Hope, David

Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design

By Adam Bowett

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

The Village

By Alice Taylor

Newton: the Liberator

By John Pollock

John Wesley

By Stephen Tomkins

Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion

By Andrew Robinson

Suleiman the Magnificent

By Andre Clot

The Memoirs of Field Marshal Kesselring

By Albert Kesselring, James Holland, Kenneth Macksey

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

Creating the Better Hour: Lessons from William Wilberforce

By Chuck Stetson

Marion: A Modern-day Miracle

By John Scally

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

By Paula Uruburu