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Calm the F**k Down (A No F*cks Given Guide)

By Knight, Sarah

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

By N. Levtzion, J.F.P. Hopkins

On Sparta (Penguin Classics)

By Plutarch, Talbert, Richard, Talbert, Richard, Talbert, Richard

Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

By D. Cannadine

Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

By H. Bauer, M. Cook

Rape in Wartime

By R. Branche, F. Virgili

Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey

By Keane, Fergal

Bring Me My Machine Gun

By Alec Russell

Reinventing a Continent

By Andre Brink

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33

By Joseph Roth

Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink

By Stefan Zweig (Author), John Gray (Translator), Will Stone

Black Athena Revisited

By Guy MacLean Rogers

The Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light

By David Park

Animals Strike Curious Poses

By Elena Passarello

Collected Works

By Queen Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose

Men Who March Away : Poems of The First World War

By Parsons, I.M.

Quartered Safe Out Here

By Fraser, George MacDonald

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

The Man Napoleon

By Marco Regali Nai, William Henry Hudson

The Modernist Period 1900 to 1945

By Patrick Lee-Browne

Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember

By E.W. Swanton

Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

By Richard Hofstadter

Memoir of the Bobotes

By Joyce Cary

George Cross Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Bravery Beyond the Battlefield

By Michael Ashcroft

The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times

By Professor A. C. Grayling

Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict

By Seamus Dunn, T.G. Fraser

Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Francis Wheen

Speeches That Changed the World

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon, Cambridge Editorial Partners

The Penguin Book of Art Writing

By Wright, Karen, Gayford, Martin

Dear America – Letters Home from Vietnam

By Edelman, Bernard