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Holding Fast to an Image of the Past : Essays on Marxism and History: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition

By Neil Davidson

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Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

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

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

By Knight, Sarah

The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001

By Sereny, Gitta

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: The Inspiring Guide to Raising a Feminist

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Granta 32: History (The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: Its Grasp and Reach

By Indian Law Institute

The Wordy Shipmates

By Vowell, Sarah

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

By Mendelsohn, Daniel

Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

By Hargreaves, Alec

Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History

By Shenkman, Richard

Five Chimneys - A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz

By Lengyel, Olga

To Diana, with Love from the Children (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Corney, Ruth